👉 In mathematics, "aftonian" is a term used to describe an algebraic structure that is similar to the concept of a ring but with additional properties. It is named after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss who introduced the term in 1837.
Aftonians are rings whose multiplication operation is associative (i.e., for all a, b and c in A, the equation ab = ba) and also has an identity element e such that for all a in A,
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