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A note on computable real fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

E. W. Madison
E. W. Madison*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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It is well known that every field (formally, real field ) has an algebraic closure (real-closure ). This is to say is an algebraic extension of which is algebraically closed (real-closed). Of course, certain properties of carry over to . In particular, M. O. Rabin has proved in [3] that the algebraic closure—which is of course unique up to isomorphism—of a computable field is computable. The purpose of this note is to establish an analogue of Rabin's theorem for formally real fields. It is clear that a direct analogue can be formulated only in the case of ordered fields, for otherwise there may be many (nonisomorphic) such .

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , June 1970 , pp. 239 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1970

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