Galois field

English

Etymology

Named after Évariste Galois (1811–1832), French mathematician.

Noun

Galois field (plural Galois fields)

(algebra) A finite field.
- 2001, [E. Bonin], A Brief Introduction To Matroid Theory‎, retrieved 2016-05-05:
  The case of most interest to us will be that in which F is a finite field, the Galois field GF(q) for some prime power q. If q is prime, this field is $\mathbb {Z} _{q}$ , the integers $0,1,...,q-1$ with arithmetic modulo q.

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