ISBN: | 978-5-5084-8456-9 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, an algebra over a field is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product. An algebra such that the product is associative and has an identity is therefore a ring that is also a vector space, and thus equipped with a field of scalars. Such an algebra is called here a unital associative algebra for clarity, because there are also nonassociative algebras.