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algebraic number

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algebraic number
n.
A number that is a root of a polynomial equation with rational coefficients.

algebraic number
n
(Mathematics) any number that is a root of a polynomial equation having rational coefficients such as √2 but not π Compare transcendental number
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Noun1.algebraic number - root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients
irrational, irrational number - a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number


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Gauss' composition law offered a new way of thinking about relationships among numbers and led to the development of the mathematical field now known as algebraic number theory.
, which he earned last year, Bhargava extended some work of the legendary 19th-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, work that forms the basis of modern algebraic number theory.
* Mathematicians reached a milestone in algebraic number theory by proving the local Langlands correspondence, a conjecture that concerns prime numbers and perfect squares (157: 47).
 
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