For questions on Noetherian rings, Noetherian modules and related notions.
A (commutative) ring is called Noetherian if every ascending chain of ideals becomes stationary. For non-commutative rings, the notions of left- and right-Noetherian exist, and they apply to left and right ideals respectively. A Noetherian non-commutative ring is both left- and right-Noetherian.
More generally, a module is Noetherian if each ascending chain of submodules becomes stationary.
A vector space is Noetherian if and only if it is of finite dimension, and "Noetherian" can in a vague way be considered as a generalization of "finite-dimensional."
