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.
Synonyms
- algebraic number field
Hypernyms
- associative algebra
- extension field
Hyponyms
- cyclotomic field
- quadratic field
- ring of integers