Published On Apr 15, 2014
Cyclotomic fields include a "bare minimum" of nonreal numbers to extend the rationals. We provide some motivation for doing this, and an initial example (the 8th cyclotomic field) in this video.
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Cyclotomic fields include a "bare minimum" of nonreal numbers to extend the rationals. We provide some motivation for doing this, and an initial example (the 8th cyclotomic field) in this video.