Why All Rings Should Have a 1

Should the definition of ring require the existence of a multiplicative identity 1? Emmy Noether, when giving the modern axiomatic definition of a commutativering, in 1921, did not include such an axiom [15, p. 29]. For several decades, algebra books followed suit [16, x3.1], [18, I.x5]. But starti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poonen, Bjorn
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Informa UK Limited 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126525

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