Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Section 4.2, Due Wednesday Feb. 1

Part I: What was the most difficult part of the material for you?

The proof to Theorem 4.5 was the hardest thing for me to follow. It is difficult to read and follow the proof all the way through to show that d(x) is the unique gcd. I understand how there is a gcd but it seems more difficult to see that it is the only one.

Part II: Write something reflecting about the reading.

It is interesting to compare these theorems to chapter 1 and see the similarities. I never would have expected polynomials to act so similar to integers. I am just guessing that the next section will continue on into showing how mod works with polynomials as well. 
 

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