ideal number

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from ideale Zahl

Definitions

  1. An algebraic integer that represents an ideal in the ring of integers of a number field.

The neighborhood

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