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Addition and multiplication are commutative in most number systems, and, in particular, between natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers. This is also true in every field. Addition is commutative in every vector space and in every algebra. Union and intersection are commutative operations on sets.
Informally, a field is a set, along with two operations defined on that set: an addition operation written as a + b, and a multiplication operation written as a ⋅ b, both of which behave similarly as they behave for rational numbers and real numbers, including the existence of an additive inverse −a for all elements a, and of a multiplicative inverse b −1 for every nonzero element b.
An algebraic number field (or simply number field) is a finite-degree field extension of the field of rational numbers. Here degree means the dimension of the field as a vector space over Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } .
The integers and the rational numbers have rank one, as well as every nonzero additive subgroup of the rationals. On the other hand, the multiplicative group of the nonzero rationals has an infinite rank, as it is a free abelian group with the set of the prime numbers as a basis (this results from the fundamental theorem of arithmetic).
Multiplication is commutative and associative, with the number as its identity and with / as the inverse element for each positive rational number . The fact that the prime numbers forms a basis for multiplication of these numbers follows from the fundamental theorem of arithmetic , according to which every positive integer can be factorized ...
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The rational, real and complex numbers are commutative rings of a type called fields. A unital associative algebra over a commutative ring R is itself a ring as well as an R-module. Some examples: The algebra R[X] of polynomials with coefficients in R.
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