2007, Pierre Antoine Grillet, Abstract Algebra, 2nd edition, Springer, page 166:
Definition. A fieldisalgebraically closed when itsatisfies the equivalentconditionsinProposition 4.1. For instance, the fundamental theorem of algebra (Theorem III.8.11) states that is algebraically closed. The fields , , , are not algebraically closed, but and can be embedded into the algebraically closed field .
2008, M. Ram Murty, Problems in Analytic Number Theory, 2nd edition, Springer, page 155:
Inmanyways is analogous to . For example, is not algebraically closed. The exercises below show that is not algebraically closed. However, by adjoining to , we get the field of complex numbers, which is algebraically closed. In contrast, the algebraic closure of is not of finite degree over . Moreover, is complete with respect to the extension of the usual norm of . Unfortunately, is not complete with respect to the extension of the p-adic norm. So after completing it (via the usual method of Cauchy sequences) we get a still larger field, usually denoted by , and it turns out to be both algebraically closed and complete.
2015, Martyn R. Dixon, Leonid A. Kurdachenko, Igor Ya Subbotin, An Introduction to Essential Algebraic Structures, Wiley, page 195: