skew field

(idea) by dido Mon Dec 31 2001 at 6:03:54

A skew field is a division ring that has a non-commutative multiplication operation. Wedderburn's Theorem states that there are no finite skew fields, i.e. any finite division ring is always a field. The most famous example of a skew field are Hamilton's quaternions.

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