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A cyclotomic field is a number field obtained by adjoining a complex primitive root of unity to $\mathbb Q$, the field of rational numbers.

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Motivation for cyclotomic units

I'm quite sure cyclotomic units were first introduced by Kummer in his 1847 paper, where he proved his very famous partial solution to Fermat's Last Theorem: Theorem (Kummer) If $p$ is an odd prim …
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