Associations to the word «Noncommutative»

Wiktionary

NONCOMMUTATIVE, adjective. (of an algebraic structure) Not having commutativity of all elements under its operation.
NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY, noun. (mathematics) (physics) A version of C*-algebra which does away with commutativity, and the geometry which would be generated by/associated with such a modified algebra.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope