Identity in Rings
According to the glossary of ring theory, convention assumes the existence of a multiplicative identity for any ring. With this assumption, all rings are unital, and all ring homomorphisms are unital, and (associative) algebras are unital iff they are rings. Authors who do not require rings to have identity will refer to rings which do have identity as unital rings, and modules over these rings for which the ring identity acts as an identity on the module as unital modules or unitary modules.
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