Can a infinite group be a finite union of proper subgroups? We know that a group can not be written as a union of two proper subgroups and obiously a finite group can be written as a finite union of proper subgroups.So I want to ask if a infinite group be written as a finite union of proper subgroups?Moveover,Can a field be a finite union of proper subfields?

There is a lot of research on groups covered by a finite set of proper subgroups. It all started with a seminal paper of Bernhard Neumann, Groups covered by finitely many cosets, Publ. Math. Debrecen 3 (1954), 227-242, in which he proves that if a group is the union of a finite number of subgroups (or even cosets), you only have to take into account those subgroups having finite index. This implies that a group has a finite covering by subgroups if and only if it has a finite non-cyclic homomorphic image. See also recent work of Mira Bhargava, the mother of the brilliant number theorist Manjul Bhargava.
