Mathematics - Algebra

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A mathematical algebra has three parts:

• Objects. The collection of objects defines what we’re talking about.
• Operations
• Laws are relationships between the objects and the operations.

In high school algebra:

• the objects are numbers
• and the operations are addition, multiplication and friends.

In the algebra of Haskell types,

• the objects are types, for example Bool and Int.
• the operators take types that already exist, and generate new types from them.

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