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In abstract algebra, a field extension ''L''/''K'' is called algebraic if every element of ''L'' is algebraic over ''K'', i.e. if every element of ''L'' is a root of some non-zero polynomial with coefficients in ''K''. Field extensions that are not algebraic, i.e. which contain transcendental elements, are called transcendental. For example, the field extension R/Q, that is the field of real numbers as an extension of the field of rational numbers, is transcendental, while the field extensions C/R and Q(√2)/Q are algebraic, where C is the field of complex numbers. All transcendental extensions are of infinite degree. This in turn implies that all finite extensions are algebraic.〔See also Hazewinkel et al. (2004), p. 3.〕 The converse is not true however: there are infinite extensions which are algebraic. For instance, the field of all algebraic numbers is an infinite algebraic extension of the rational numbers. If ''a'' is algebraic over ''K'', then ''K''(), the set of all polynomials in ''a'' with coefficients in ''K'', is not only a ring but a field: an algebraic extension of ''K'' which has finite degree over ''K''. The converse is true as well, if ''K''() is a field, then ''a'' is algebraic over ''K''. In the special case where ''K'' = Q is the field of rational numbers, Q() is an example of an algebraic number field. A field with no nontrivial algebraic extensions is called algebraically closed. An example is the field of complex numbers. Every field has an algebraic extension which is algebraically closed (called its algebraic closure), but proving this in general requires some form of the axiom of choice. An extension ''L''/''K'' is algebraic if and only if every sub ''K''-algebra of ''L'' is a field. ==Properties== The class of algebraic extensions forms a distinguished class of field extensions, that is, the following three properties hold:〔Lang (2002) p.228〕 # If ''E'' is an algebraic extension of ''F'' and ''F'' is an algebraic extension of ''K'' then ''E'' is an algebraic extension of ''K''. # If ''E'' and ''F'' are algebraic extensions of ''K'' in a common overfield ''C'', then the compositum ''EF'' is an algebraic extension of ''K''. # If ''E'' is an algebraic extension of ''F'' and ''E''>''K''>''F'' then ''E'' is an algebraic extension of ''K''. These finitary results can be generalized using transfinite induction: This fact, together with Zorn's lemma (applied to an appropriately chosen poset), establishes the existence of algebraic closures. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algebraic extension」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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