There is a branch of mathematics so abstract that its nearest neighbours — algebraic geometry, analytic number theory, the Langlands program — are themselves considered advanced terrain by most working mathematicians, and yet its objects of study are, in a certain light, the simplest things imaginable: number fields, algebraic extensions of the rationals, the minimal structures that emerge when you adjoin the root of a polynomial to the rational numbers and ask what arithmetic becomes possible there. NumberFields@Home, hosted at numberfields.asu.edu and based at the School of Mathematics at Arizona State University, exists to enumerate these structures systematically — to build, through the combined processing power of thousands of volunteer machines running the BOINC client, complete tables of number fields of degree ten, the so-called decic fields, whose combinatorial complexity places their full enumeration far beyond what any single institution's hardware could accomplish alone. The project was founded by Eric D. Driver, who recognised that while lower-degree fields had been extensively tabulated, the degree-ten case represented the first frontier genuinely requiring a massively parallel distributed solution. The results feed directly into the LMFDB — the L-functions and Modular Forms Database — and into a searchable number field database maintained jointly by John W. Jones and David P. Roberts at ASU, a permanent record of mathematical territory that, before the project existed, was simply unknown.