12-240/Classnotes for Thursday September 13

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In the second day of the class, the professor continues on the definition of a field.

Definition of a field

Combined with a part from the first class, we have a complete definition as follow:

A field is a set "F' with two binary operations +,x defind on it, and two special elements 0 ≠ 1 such that

F1: commutative law

$\forall \!\,$ a, b $\in \!\,$ F: a+b=b+a and a.b=b.a

F2: associative law

$\forall \!\,$ a, b, c $\in \!\,$ F: (a+b)+c=a+(b+c) and (a.b).c= a.(b.c)

F3: the existence of identity elements

$\forall \!\,$ a $\in \!\,$ Fa+o=a and a.1=a

F4: existence of inverses

$\forall \!\,$ 0≠a $\in \!\ F,\exists \!\,c,d\in \!\ F$ such that a+c=o and a.d=1