“…From bilinear maps to commutative algebra Next, we briefly explain the approach taken in order to pass from possibly non-associative, non-commutative, and nonunitary algebras to algebras of scalars (and similarly for rings). The ideas we present here were introduced by the second author in [26], and they have been used successfully to study different first order theoretic aspects of different types of structures, including rings whose additive group is finitely generated [27], free algebras [16,18,19], and nilpotent groups [28,29].…”