10-1100/Homework Assignment 4

DBN: Classes: 2010-11: 10-1100/Navigation Additions to the MAT 1100 web site no longer count towards good deed points # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 13 About This Class, Tuesday - Non Commutative Gaussian Elimination, Thursday 2 Sep 20 Tuesday - Homomorphisms and Normal Groups, Thursday - Isomorphism Theorems 3 Sep 27 Class Photo, HW1, HW1 solution 4 Oct 4 5 Oct 11 HW2, HW2 solution 6 Oct 18 7 Oct 25 Term Test 8 Nov 1 HW3, HW3 solution 9 Nov 8 Monday-Tuesday is Fall Break, One Theorem, Two Corollaries, Four Weeks 10 Nov 15 HW4, HW4 solution 11 Nov 22 12 Nov 29 HW5, HW5 solution 13 Dec 6 Boxing Day Handout, see also December 2010 Schedule. Some Class Notes F Dec 13 Final exam, Tuesday December 14 10-1, Bahen 6183 Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in! See Non Commutative Gaussian Elimination

In Preparation

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This assignment is due at class time on Tuesday, November 30, 2010.

Solve the following questions

Problem 1. Prove that a ring $R$ is a PID iff it is a UFD in which $\gcd(a,b)\in \langle a,b\rangle$ for every non-zero $a,b\in R$.