A subfield is a subset of a field that itself is also a field under the same operations of addition and multiplication. It retains the structure of a field, meaning it must contain the additive and multiplicative identities, be closed under addition and multiplication, and every non-zero element must have a multiplicative inverse. Understanding subfields is crucial as they relate to the properties and behaviors of larger fields, which are foundational concepts in algebraic structures.
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