Volume 38, Issue 1
Article

ALGEBRAIC CLOSURE WITHOUT CHOICE

Bernhard Banaschewski

Department of Mathematics and Statistics McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 Canada

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First published: 1992
Citations: 1

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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