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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In mathematics, the theory of fields in abstract algebra lacks a direct product: the direct product of two fields, considered as a ring is never itself a field. On the other hand it is often required to ''join'' two fields K and L, either in cases where K and L are given as subfields of a larger field M, or when K and L are both field extensions of a smaller field N (for example a prime field). The tensor product of fields is the best available construction on fields with which to discuss all the phenomena arising. As a ring, it is sometimes a field, and often a direct product of fields; it can, though, contain non-zero nilpotents (see radical of a ring).
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In mathematics, the theory of fields in abstract algebra lacks a direct product: the direct product of two fields, considered as a ring is never itself a field. On the other hand it is often required to ''join'' two fields K and L, either in cases where K and L are given as subfields of a larger field M, or when K and L are both field extensions of a smaller field N (for example a prime field). The tensor product of fields is the best available construction on fields with which to discuss all the phenomena arising. As a ring, it is sometimes a field, and often a direct product of fields; it can, though, contain non-zero nilpotents (see radical of a ring).
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