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Read appendices A through D in our textbook (with higher attention to C and D), and solve the following problems:
 
Read appendices A through D in our textbook (with higher attention to C and D), and solve the following problems:
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# Suppose <math>a</math> and <math>b</math> are nonzero elements of a field <math>F</math>. Using only the field axioms, prove that <math>a^{-1}b^{-1}</math> is a multiplicative inverse of <math>ab</math>. State which axioms are used in your proof.
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# Let <math>F=\{0,1,a,b\}</math> be a field containing 4 elements. Assume that <math>1+1=0</math>. Prove that <math>b=a^{-1}=a^2=a+1</math>. (''Hint:'' For example, for the first equality, show that <math>a\cdot b</math> cannot equal <math>0</math>, <math>a</math>, or <math>b</math>.)
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# Write the following complex numbers in the form <math>a+ib</math>, with <math>a,b\in{\mathbb R}</math>:
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## <math>\frac{1}{2i}+\frac{-2i}{5-i}</math>.
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## <math>(1+i)^5</math>.
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This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday September 21. Here and everywhere, '''neatness counts!!''' You may be brilliant and you may mean just the right things, but if the teaching assistants will be having hard time deciphering your work; it will be your problem, not theirs.

Revision as of 17:54, 13 September 2006

Read appendices A through D in our textbook (with higher attention to C and D), and solve the following problems:

  1. Suppose a and b are nonzero elements of a field F. Using only the field axioms, prove that a^{-1}b^{-1} is a multiplicative inverse of ab. State which axioms are used in your proof.
  2. Let F=\{0,1,a,b\} be a field containing 4 elements. Assume that 1+1=0. Prove that b=a^{-1}=a^2=a+1. (Hint: For example, for the first equality, show that a\cdot b cannot equal 0, a, or b.)
  3. Write the following complex numbers in the form a+ib, with a,b\in{\mathbb R}:
    1. \frac{1}{2i}+\frac{-2i}{5-i}.
    2. (1+i)^5.

This assignment is due at the tutorials on Thursday September 21. Here and everywhere, neatness counts!! You may be brilliant and you may mean just the right things, but if the teaching assistants will be having hard time deciphering your work; it will be your problem, not theirs.