Does a parent function like a set? I would like to create a ring with elements which are sets and then place those elements into a matrix so that I can perform certain assigned operations on those elements.
Yes! A parent indeed models a mathematical set, more often than not endowed with some structure (a ring, a poset, a vector space, ...).
In your case, you want to implement a class that inherits from Parent, and sets its category to Rings() during the initialization. We don't have yet a minimal example of implementation of a ring, but you can already look at:
sage: S = Monoids()
sage: M = S.example()
sage: M??Thanks, is it in the plans to do this for Rings? I was hoping to be able to account for 2 operations (addition and multiplication?).
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