Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Section 5.3, Due Wednesday, February 15

The section for today was 5.3: The Structure of F[x]/(p(x)) When p(x) is irreducible.

The hardest part to understand was theorem 5.11, the fact that the extension field contains a root to p(x).

I thought that it was fascinating that the definition for the complex numbers comes from these ideas and structures.

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