Section 5.2, Due February 13

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


I was most confused about Theorem 5.7. The second sentence was way too confusing because it used a symbol for mod and then had the word modulo and I didn't understood how those related to each other, and I still don't. Maybe the book just misprint it incorrectly or I am just not understanding the notation correctly, but I don't understand what the theorem is saying in English. 


Part II: Write something reflective about the reading.


It wasn't until I started reading this section when I realized that F[x]/p(x) is similar to the idea of integers mod n. Once I understood that notation in that way, it started to click better. When I first saw it, just knew what you would say if you saw that notation, but I didn't really understand what I was saying. Polynomials are a lot harder than integers to understand for me.