Algebraic field

A field is a commutative ring \((R, +, \times)\) (henceforth abbreviated simply as \(R\), with multiplicative identity \(1\) and additive identity \(0\)) which additionally has the property that every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse: for every \(r \in R\) there is \(x \in R\) such that \(xr = rx = 1\). Conventionally we insist that a field must have more than one element: equivalently, \(0 \not = 1\).

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