Levi-Civita field en · NOUN
Etymology
Named after Tullio Levi-Civita.
Meanings
- A non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Levi-Civita fields | Number=Plur | lexicographic |