1. The discovery of Associative law is controversial

2. Illustrated definition of Associative Law: When adding it doesnt matter how we group the numbers (i.e

3. In Maths, Associative law is applicable to only two of the four major arithmetic operations, which are addition and multiplication

4. Abelian groups 1 Definition An Abelian group is a set A with a binary operation satisfying the following conditions: (A1) For all a;b;c 2A, we have a (b c) = (a b) c (the associative law)