Concept
Ordered field
Overview
field together with a total ordering of its elements such that the set of positive elements is translation-invariant and multiplicatively closed
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Related ideas
- Hans Hahn (mathematician)
- First-order logic
- Infinitesimal
- Mathematics
- Rational number
- Real number
- Natural number
- Archimedean property
- Set (mathematics)
- Subset
- Total order
- Complex number
- David Hilbert
Place in the tradition
Part of First-order logic.