Types of Fields
- Finite field
- A field with finitely many elements.
- Ordered field
- A field with a total order compatible with its operations.
- Rational numbers
- Real numbers
- Complex numbers
- Number field
- Finite extension of the field of rational numbers.
- Algebraic numbers
- The field of algebraic numbers is the smallest algebraically closed extension of the field of rational numbers. Their detailed properties are studied in algebraic number theory.
- Quadratic field
- A degree-two extension of the rational numbers.
- Cyclotomic field
- An extension of the rational numbers generated by a root of unity.
- Totally real field
- A number field generated by a root of a polynomial, having all its roots real numbers.
- Formally real field
- Real closed field
- Global field
- A number field or a function field of one variable over a finite field.
- Local field
- A completion of some global field (w.r.t. a prime of the integer ring).
- Complete field
- A field complete w.r.t. to some valuation.
- Pseudo algebraically closed field
- A field in which every variety has a rational point.
- Henselian field
- A field satisfying Hensel lemma w.r.t. some valuation. A generalization of complete fields.
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