Friday, January 21, 2011

3.2, due on 1/24

1.  I was a little confused by Theorem 3.5 (7) because on Friday's homework we found a 1r=0 so how would -1ra=-a?  Oh, well by looking at that proof I got it.

2.  I liked the idea that these principles could be applied to any ring.  It seems powerful.  Also all the proofs were very straightforward.  I liked Theorem 3.6 for checking if a subset was a subring because Theorem 3.2 seemed like too much stuff to remember.

p.s. The homework assignment due Friday was a little excessive.  I do not think it was necessary to do addition and multiplication tables for three separate Cartesian products.  After two, maybe even one, it was busy work.

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