Tagged Questions
5
votes
2answers
231 views
Are ideals in rings and lattices related?
There are (at least) two notions of ideals:
An ideal in a ring is a set closed under addition and multiplication by arbitrary element.
An ideal in a lattice is a set closed under taking smaller ...
8
votes
3answers
381 views
Examples of rings with ideal lattice isomorphic to $M_3$, $N_5$
In thinking about this recent question, I was reading about distributive lattices, and the Wikipedia article includes a very interesting characterization:
A lattice is distributive if and only if ...
