English Dictionary

nonassociative

adj

Not associative. / (algebra, of an algebraic structure) Whose multiplication operation is not assumed to be associative for all elements.

This operation is nonassociative.

意味（1）

Not associative.

意味（2）

(algebra, of an algebraic structure) Whose multiplication operation is not assumed to be associative for all elements.

This book has been written about associative algebras. However, there is an analogous “PI-theory” that can be carried out for nonassociative rings, which is outlined here.