Ockham algebra
nounEtymology Named after the English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347) by Alasdair Urquhart in 1979. The notion was introduced by Joel Berman in 1977.
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Algebra, Mathematics, Sciences A bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism (where “dual” means that it satisfies De Morgan’s laws).
- Hypernyms
- distributive lattice
- Hyponyms
- Boolean algebra, De Morgan algebra, Kleene algebra, Stone algebra