radical
Let be a field and be algebraic (http://planetmath.org/Algebraic) over . Then is a radical over if there exists a positive integer with .
Note that, if is a field extension and is a radical over , then is automatically a radical over .
Following are some examples of radicals:
- 1.
All numbers of the form , where is a positive integer and and are integers with are radicals over .
- 2.
The number is a radical over since .