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ALGEBRAIC CLOSURE WITHOUT CHOICE
Article first published online: 13 NOV 2006
DOI: 10.1002/malq.19920380136
Copyright © 1992 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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Banaschewski, B. (1992), ALGEBRAIC CLOSURE WITHOUT CHOICE. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 38: 383–385. doi: 10.1002/malq.19920380136
Publication History
- Issue published online: 13 NOV 2006
- Article first published online: 13 NOV 2006
- Manuscript Received: 19 NOV 1990
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Keywords:
- Axiom of choice;
- Boolean utrafilter theorem;
- algebraic closure
Abstract
This note shows that for the proof of the existence and uniqueness of the algebraic closure of a field one needs only the Boolean Ultrafilter Theorem.

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