ideal number
nounEtymology
Apparently a calque of German ideale Zahl, a concept in number theory developed by German mathematician Ernst Kummer (1810—1893) and later incorporated by Richard Dedekind into the ring theory concept of ideal.
- derived from ideale Zahl
Definitions
An algebraic integer that represents an ideal in the ring of integers of a number field.
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