👉 In mathematics, a semiring is an algebraic structure where addition and multiplication are defined only in terms of one binary operation. The term "semiring" was coined by mathematician Alfred Tarski to denote a ring with a unary operation that is commutative but not associative. Semirings were first introduced by Paul Gordan in his 1920 paper on algebraic structures, and they have since become an important part of the study of noncommutative rings. Sem