Editing Associative property (section)

== History ==

[[William Rowan Hamilton]] seems to have coined the term "associative property"<ref name="Hamilton">{{cite journal |author-link=William Rowan Hamilton |first=W.R. |last=Hamilton |year=1844–1850 |url=http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/OnQuat/ |title=On quaternions or a new system of imaginaries in algebra |journal=[[Philosophical Magazine]] |department=David R. Wilkins collection |publisher=[[Trinity College Dublin]]}}</ref> around 1844, a time when he was contemplating the non-associative algebra of the [[octonions]] he had learned about from [[John T. Graves]].<ref name="Baez">{{Cite journal | last1 = Baez | first1 = John C. | author-link = John Baez| title = The Octonions | journal = Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society | issn = 0273-0979 | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 145–205 | year = 2002 | url = https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2002-39-02/S0273-0979-01-00934-X/S0273-0979-01-00934-X.pdf | doi = 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00934-X | arxiv = math/0105155| mr = 1886087| s2cid = 586512}}</ref>