number field
English
Noun
number field (plural number fields)
- (mathematics, algebraic number theory) A field which includes the rational numbers and has finite dimension as a vector space over the rational numbers.
- Number fields are typically formed by adjoining algebraic integers to the field of rational numbers.
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- cyclotomic field
- quadratic field
- ring of integers
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