Quote:Original post by SiCrane
Any one who asks if something is a field has had exposure to group theory. Any one who can find gamedev and point their browser to it can throw the term "abelian" into a search engine and get five definitions without blinking.
Not necessarily, Field theory is independent of group theory, it can stand on its own. ive seen works that refer loosely to fields to describe real numbers that do not require any exposure to group theory. Perhaps in a basic course in set theory and logic? In addition, people other than timw could be reading this and typing the few extra letters is alot less work than going to google to search for abelian and puzzling out a meaning which may or may not be correct.but yeah, whatever.
