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The most natural field of subsets of a set is the field of all its subsets. Does that field have a simple algebraic characterization? The answer is yes; the purpose of this section is to exhibit such a characterization.
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Halmos, P.R. (1974). Atoms. In: Lectures on Boolean Algebras. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9855-7_16
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