Levi-Civita field
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Tullio Levi-Civita.
Noun
[edit]Levi-Civita field (plural Levi-Civita fields)
- (mathematics) A non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member can be constructed as a formal series of the form where are real numbers, is the set of rational numbers, and is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.