From numbers to rings: The early history of ring theory (Q1267722)

In this history of ring theory, going roughly from 1840 to 1940, the author lists the main stages: in the non-commutative theory they are hypercomplex systems and division algebras, while the commutative theory has the two large branches of algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry, with a brief mention of some of the methods to which they gave arise. There is no mention of more modern developments, nor of the many applications: representation theory, power series rings in probability theory, algebras in functional analysis etc.