12-240/Classnotes for Tuesday September 18

DBN: Classes: 2012-13: 12-240 / Navigation Additions to this web site no longer count towards good deed points. # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 10 About This Class, Tuesday, Thursday 2 Sep 17 HW1, Tuesday, Thursday, HW1 Solutions 3 Sep 24 HW2, Tuesday, Class Photo, Thursday 4 Oct 1 HW3, Tuesday, Thursday 5 Oct 8 HW4, Tuesday, Thursday 6 Oct 15 Tuesday, Thursday 7 Oct 22 HW5, Tuesday, Term Test was on Thursday. HW5 Solutions 8 Oct 29 Why LinAlg?, HW6, Tuesday, Thursday, Nov 4 is the last day to drop this class 9 Nov 5 Tuesday, Thursday 10 Nov 12 Monday-Tuesday is UofT November break, HW7, Thursday 11 Nov 19 HW8, Tuesday,Thursday 12 Nov 26 HW9, Tuesday , Thursday 13 Dec 3 Tuesday UofT Fall Semester ends Wednesday F Dec 10 The Final Exam (time, place, style, office hours times) Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in!

Recap:

Thrm: In a field F: 1. a+b = c+b => a=c 2. b≠0, a∙b=c∙b => a=c 3. 0 is unique. 4. 1 is unique. 5. -a is unique. 6. a^-1 is unique (a≠0) 7. -(-a)=a 8. (a^-1)^-1 =a 9. a∙0=0 **Surprisingly difficult, required distributivity. 10. ∄ 0^-1, aka, ∄ b∈F s.t 0∙b=1 11. (-a)∙(-b)=a∙b