Levi-Civita field (English, noun)
expansion: Levi-Civita field (plural Levi-Civita fields)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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:
form: Levi-Civita fields
tags: plural