👉 In the context of a mathematical operation, "lotase" is a term used to describe an algebraic expression that represents a product. The term is often used in the field of algebraic geometry and is named after the French mathematician Pierre Alain de la Vallée-Poussin. The concept of lotase arises from the idea of defining a product of two or more elements as a single element multiplied by all their multiplicities, which are the powers of each element that appear in