Øystein Ore was a Norwegian algebraist and graph theorist. His Norwegian name in his mathematical articles was however spelled as Oystein Ore. He introduced Ore extensions and Ore conditions for Ore sets (in the context of study of linear equations over noncommutative Ore domains) of rings. Ore introduced name groupoid for what we now call magma (cf. historical notes on quasigroups).
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