algebraic number theory

Meaning

Noun

The branch of number theory in which number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic number fields or related objects, and studied using techniques from algebra.

Origin

. Possibly (alternatively or also) a calque of German algebraische Zahlentheorie.

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