Wednesday, February 17, 2016

5.2, February 17th 2016

1)  This might be a silly, but I don't know what it means when in the example after the proof of 5.7, when it says "we now have a ring that has Z2 as a subset."  What exactly does this mean and why is it surprising?  So surprising, that they say later, "However E does contain Z2 as an honest-to-goodness subset, without any identification."  Also, what does it mean to say without any identification?
2) Arithmetic is more interesting in this congruence-class arithmetic.  However, it still is very similar to the arithmetic that we learned in Zn.

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