Field (mathematics): Revision history

2 October 2026

• curprev 16:3216:32, 2 October 2026 Lemondoge talk contribs m 87,825 bytes +154 Avoid misuse of desclist formatting to indent math by using the `display=block` option of <math> instead undo Tag: AWB
• curprev 16:2216:22, 2 October 2026 .NetStacks talk contribs 87,671 bytes +43 No edit summary undo

4 September 2026

• curprev 11:2011:20, 4 September 2026 JayBeeEll talk contribs m 87,628 bytes −112 Reverted 1 edit by ~2026-47847-45 (talk) to last revision by JayBeeEll undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
• curprev 11:1411:14, 4 September 2026 ~2026-47847-45 talk 87,740 bytes +112 →Definition: perhaps here then undo Tag: Reverted
• curprev 11:1011:10, 4 September 2026 JayBeeEll talk contribs 87,628 bytes −112 Undid revision 1373168395 by ~2026-47847-45 (talk) uncited, uninteresting if true, and certainly undue and inappropriate in this spot undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 11:0611:06, 4 September 2026 ~2026-47847-45 talk 87,740 bytes +112 →Definition: distributive laws, combined with the existence of a multiplicative identity, force addition to be commutative undo Tag: Reverted

17 August 2026

• curprev 11:2111:21, 17 August 2026 Sławomir Biały talk contribs 87,628 bytes +8 Why removed links to the most familiar examples of fields?? Undid 2 revisions from 1369822025 until 1369822187 undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 11:1111:11, 17 August 2026 Ahrricane talk contribs 87,620 bytes −4 hyperlink removed undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit
• curprev 11:1011:10, 17 August 2026 Ahrricane talk contribs 87,624 bytes −4 hyperlink removed undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

27 July 2026

• curprev 12:3412:34, 27 July 2026 Chatul talk contribs m 87,628 bytes +1 Fix grammar broken by previous update - plural vs singular undo

24 July 2026

• curprev 17:0817:08, 24 July 2026 JayBeeEll talk contribs 87,627 bytes −94 Undid revision 1365676019 by ~2026-41199-02 (talk) this clarification is not "first sentence of the article"-level information undo

23 July 2026

• curprev 20:2320:23, 23 July 2026 ~2026-41199-02 talk 87,721 bytes +119 Changed the definition so that it doesn't lack small but important detail - inescapability of the field on +, -, *, / operations, without it its hard to understand the concept undo

5 June 2026

• curprev 08:2108:21, 5 June 2026 D.Lazard talk contribs 87,602 bytes −10 →Topological fields: simplification of the formulation, and completing the example undo
• curprev 07:5507:55, 5 June 2026 D.Lazard talk contribs 87,612 bytes −93 Reverted 1 edit by ~2026-28336-51 (talk): Belongs to and is already in the "in the sense" clause undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
• curprev 02:4302:43, 5 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,705 bytes +93 →Topological fields undo Tag: Reverted

4 June 2026

• curprev 22:1822:18, 4 June 2026 JayBeeEll talk contribs m 87,612 bytes +58 No edit summary undo
• curprev 19:0319:03, 4 June 2026 Jacobolus talk contribs m 87,554 bytes +50 Fixed URL undo
• curprev 18:3818:38, 4 June 2026 Johnjbarton talk contribs 87,504 bytes +48 →Differential fields: what the source says undo
• curprev 18:1618:16, 4 June 2026 Johnjbarton talk contribs 87,456 bytes −50 delete link that no longer leads to book chapter undo
• curprev 16:3416:34, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,506 bytes +2 →Division rings undo
• curprev 16:2216:22, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,504 bytes +4 →Local fields: to as uniformizer → to as the uniformizer undo
• curprev 16:1516:15, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,500 bytes +36 →Geometry: field of functions: Improved phrasing undo
• curprev 16:1316:13, 4 June 2026 JBW talk contribs 87,464 bytes +3 I confess that my knowledge of the general concept of dfferential fields, as opposed to knowledge of specific cases, is limited, so this may not be exactly right, in which case please correct it, but I am fairly confident that differentiation of elements of the field is wrong. undo
• curprev 16:0816:08, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,461 bytes +7 →Geometry: field of functions: complex differentiable functions → complex-valued differentiable functions undo
• curprev 16:0716:07, 4 June 2026 JBW talk contribs 87,454 bytes −5 Reverting a recent change, and also dealing with a longstanding example of the same thing. Maybe some day someone will give me a good reason to prefer the Latinism "prior to" rather than the natural English "before", but until they do I'm likely to persist in my belief that it has no advantage whatsoever, and two disadvantages: (1) it's pompous and pretentious, & (2) there are millions of people with enough knowledge of English to understand "before" but without knowledge of "prior to". undo
• curprev 15:5915:59, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,459 bytes +44 →Differential fields undo
• curprev 15:4615:46, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,415 bytes +15 →Closure operations undo
• curprev 15:3215:32, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,400 bytes +3 →Ordered fields: only has the solution → has as its only solution undo
• curprev 15:3015:30, 4 June 2026 Deacon Vorbis talk contribs 87,397 bytes −18 →Rational numbers: even more undo
• curprev 15:2615:26, 4 June 2026 ~2026-28336-51Temporary account has expired talk 87,415 bytes +6 →Examples: a long time before → for a long time prior to undo

13 May 2026

• curprev 09:3609:36, 13 May 2026 D.Lazard talk contribs 87,409 bytes −18 Reverted 1 edit by ~2026-28725-97 (talk): It is already said that the operations are commututuve undo Tags: Twinkle Undo

12 May 2026

• curprev 17:4117:41, 12 May 2026 ~2026-28725-97Temporary account has expired talk 87,427 bytes +18 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

26 March 2026

• curprev 15:5915:59, 26 March 2026 JJMC89 bot III talk contribs m 87,409 bytes −7 Moving Category:Field (mathematics) to Category:Field theory per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 13#Category:Field (mathematics) undo

17 March 2026

• curprev 19:4119:41, 17 March 2026 Quondum talk contribs 87,416 bytes +21 in hatnote: Skew field → Division ring (it seems appropriate to use the actual article title rather than a redirect here); ce undo
• curprev 01:5201:52, 17 March 2026 Gamapamani talk contribs m 87,395 bytes +1 avoid broken wl detection by WP:CHECKWIKI undo

23 February 2026

• curprev 12:0712:07, 23 February 2026 LinaBlume talk contribs m 87,394 bytes +1 →Alternative definitions: The section lists multiple definitions, better to have that in the section's title undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

30 January 2026

• curprev 00:3800:38, 30 January 2026 Largibbon talk contribs m 87,393 bytes +4 No edit summary undo

16 January 2026

• curprev 20:1520:15, 16 January 2026 Ebony Jackson talk contribs 87,389 bytes −42 The sentence "finite fields have finitely many elements" seems almost tautological; it doesn't seem to merit space in the lead, so I removed it, but added finite fields to the list of "many other fields". People who don't know what a finite field is can click on the link. I made one or two other minor changes. undo
• curprev 17:5317:53, 16 January 2026 Jacobolus talk contribs 87,431 bytes −7 a couple of tweaks in the lead: (1) take 'real numbers' out of the first sentence, for concision, since it is also repeated two sentences later. move the application of finite fields to cryptography to the more topical later paragraph, since it felt out of place among the bare list. (feel free to keep reworking though) undo
• curprev 15:4215:42, 16 January 2026 Ebony Jackson talk contribs 87,438 bytes −30 →Classic definition: Rewording. There is no need to name 1 in the first succinct definition. undo

13 January 2026

• curprev 12:4712:47, 13 January 2026 Heraclitos talk contribs m 87,468 bytes 0 →Constructible numbers undo

2 January 2026

• curprev 00:5100:51, 2 January 2026 JBW talk contribs 87,468 bytes −104 I don't know what this is supposed to mean. If it means that once one has a and -1 one knows that the additive inverse of a is (−1) ⋅ a then I don't see that it adds anything to the fact that once one has a and -1 one knows that the additive inverse of a is −a. If it means something more significant than that then it needs clarification. undo

31 December 2025

• curprev 21:0021:00, 31 December 2025 Ebony Jackson talk contribs m 87,572 bytes −52 →Definition: Made the informal definition a little more concise. undo

17 December 2025

• curprev 19:1819:18, 17 December 2025 Johnjbarton talk contribs 87,624 bytes +20 →top: the alternative meaning of field in mathematical physics is covered in Field (physics) undo

31 October 2025

• curprev 09:1009:10, 31 October 2025 'n Quijote talk contribs 87,604 bytes +13 →Subfields and prime fields: fixing a reference undo

30 October 2025

• curprev 03:2003:20, 30 October 2025 Tc14Hd talk contribs m 87,591 bytes −2 →Elementary notions: Changed order undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App section source

15 October 2025

• curprev 00:2100:21, 15 October 2025 JayBeeEll talk contribs 87,593 bytes −43 Undid revision 1316839465 by Ascchrvalstr (talk) Personally I like LaTeX but (1) changing formats merely for the sake of changing formats is explicitly discouraged by our guidelines, and (2) this is especially extra true when doing so makes the style and notation of one part of an article inconsistent with teh rest of the article, as here undo Tag: Undo

14 October 2025

• curprev 19:5819:58, 14 October 2025 Ascchrvalstr talk contribs m 87,636 bytes +43 →Topological fields: Rewrite math expressions using LaTeX undo Tag: Reverted

6 October 2025

• curprev 18:2618:26, 6 October 2025 2601:204:e784:5e80:38dd:6cf2:26ca:7400 talk 87,593 bytes 0 →Residue fields: Changed the symbol F for a field to the symbol K. (Because there is already a function f involved, using a symbol "F" for a nonfunction is not a good idea.) undo
• curprev 18:2218:22, 6 October 2025 2601:204:e784:5e80:38dd:6cf2:26ca:7400 talk 87,593 bytes +7 →Field of fractions: Laurent series → formal Laurent series undo