Timeline for Why is a ring called a "ring"?
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| Feb 17 at 2:17 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 16 at 23:26 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| May 5, 2013 at 17:50 | comment | added | shenghao | Isn't $\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z$ a ring-like object? | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 20:31 | answer | added | Fabian Lenhardt | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 17:09 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | See also jeff560.tripod.com/r.html | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 13:41 | vote | accept | Joseph O'Rourke | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 13:38 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | What triggered this question was a piece by David Mumford (in "The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2012"), in which he says: "I have no idea why, but when you have any set of things that [...], mathematicians call this set a ring." | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 10:19 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 28 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 6:10 | history | reopened |
Andrés E. Caicedo Joel David Hamkins Tom LaGatta Andy Putman François G. Dorais |
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 4:03 | comment | added | François G. Dorais | I like the MSE answer but I think there is still much to be said. Why was the term adopted by people after Hilbert? Especially for rings that don't exhibit any reasonable kind of "ringesque" behavior. At best, Bill's MSE answer is inconclusive (as he admits)... | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 3:55 | comment | added | François G. Dorais | I think this needs a meta thread: tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1499/… | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 3:48 | history | closed |
Felipe Voloch Yemon Choi Chandan Singh Dalawat Benjamin Steinberg user6976 |
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 1:26 | comment | added | KConrad | See on mathoverflow mathoverflow.net/questions/35286/…. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 1:15 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Thanks, Theo. The MSE discussion is far more nuanced and erudite than what appears in Wikipedia. That MSE discussion well-answers my question. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:42 | answer | added | Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:42 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | Wikipedia has the answer. Voting to close. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:41 | comment | added | Theo Buehler | Several lengthy discussion of parts of this question can be found on math.SE, e.g. in this thread: math.stackexchange.com/q/61497 and the threads mentioned there. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:36 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |