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The word 'algebra' is used for various branches and structures of mathematics. For their overview, see Algebra.
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The bare word "algebra"
The bare word "algebra" can mean:
- Elementary algebra
- Abstract algebra
- Algebra over a field
In universal algebra, algebra has an axiomatic definition, roughly as an instance of any of a number of algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, etc.
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Branches of mathematics
- Elementary algebra, i.e. "high-school algebra."
- Abstract algebra
- Linear algebra
- Relational algebra
- Universal algebra
The term is also traditionally used for the field of:
- Computer algebra, dealing with software systems for symbolic mathematical computation, which often offer capabilities beyond what is normally understood to be "algebra".
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Mathematical structures
Vector space with multiplication
- "Algebra", or to be verbose, algebra over a field: a vector space equipped with a bilinear vector product
Some notable algebras in this sense are:
- In ring theory and linear algebra:
- Algebra over a commutative ring: a module equipped with a bilinear product. Generalization of algebras over a field.
- Associative algebra: a module equipped with an associative bilinear vector product
- Superalgebra: a -graded algebra
- Lie algebras, Poisson algebras, and Jordan algebras are important examples of (potentially) nonassociative algebras.
- In functional analysis:
- Banach algebra: an associative algebra A over the real or complex numbers which at the same time is also a Banach space.
- Operator algebra: continuous linear operators on a topological vector space with multiplication given by the composition.
- *-algebra: An algebra with a notion of adjoints.
- C* algebra: a Banach algebra equipped with a unary involution operation.
- Von Neumann algebra (or W*-algebra)
See also coalgebra, the dual notion.
Other structures
A different class of "algebras" consists of objects which generalize logical connectives, sets, and lattices.
- In logic:
- Relational algebra, in which a set of finitary relations that is closed under certain operators.
- Boolean algebra and Boolean algebra (structure)
- Heyting algebra
- In measure theory:
- Algebra over a set: a collection of sets closed under finite unions and complementation
- Sigma algebra: a collection of sets closed under countable unions and complementation
The term "algebra" can also describe more general structures:
- In category theory and computer science:
- F-algebra and F-coalgebra
- T-algebra
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Other
- Algebra Blessett, singer from the U.S, goes by the stage name Algebra.
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See also
- Algebraic (disambiguation)
- List of all articles whose title begins with "algebra"
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