Definition talk:Left Ideal of Ring

Is there a concept of a "left ideal" (or "right ideal") which is not in the context of ring theory?

The original reason for disambiguating "ideal" was because it clashed with the concept of a Platonic "ideal", particularly in the context of physics, e.g. "ideal spring" etc.

IMO it should be adequate to continue to use the existing pages Definition:Left Ideal and Definition:Right Ideal and try not to overcomplicate things with disambiguations that are not required.

Thoughts? --prime mover (talk) 03:35, 30 July 2017 (EDT)


 * I don't know if there's a more general concept, but it wouldn't surprise me, given the variety of obscure algebras out there. What happened: Not knowing the name of the redirect, I used this one, saw that it didn't existed, and decided it won't hurt to create a more specific one. --barto (talk) 04:07, 30 July 2017 (EDT)