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Noether’s theory of ideals and commutative rings forms a foundation for any researcher in the field of higher algebra.

And then there is commutative justice, the kind that governs the one-on-one relationships we have with each other.

He proposed that a geometric object called a scheme was associated to any commutative ring — that is, a set in which addition and multiplication are defined and multiplication is commutative, a × b = b × a.

As a quantum physicist he would have been acutely aware that at the deepest level, nature disobeys the commutative law.

"Math, I always thought was easy," he told the class, which had been listening to a lecture about the commutative property before the mayor's entourage descended on the classroom.