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Ladder of Algebraic Structures

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3 points by JWKennington 6 years ago · 1 comment

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JWKenningtonOP 6 years ago

I first encountered a diagram of algebraic structures at the end of Jeevanjee's second chapter, "Vector Spaces", which elegantly summarizes the high-level differences in structure between sets, vector spaces, and inner product spaces.

I've attempted to augment this map along two dimensions: a structure dimension that aims to measure the number of attributes an algebraic object has, and a specificity dimension that measures the number of constraints placed on each attribute.

This is aimed primarily at mathematical physics, and is intended as a quick reference -- it's obviously incomplete and isn't a substitute for Hungerford, Lang, or [insert favorite algebra book].

I hope you find it as helpful as I did in making it!

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