Part I: What was the most difficult part of the material for you?
The third part of Theorem 7.44 confused me the most. I didn't really understand the proof and where T came from. I don't really see how that part of the theorem is even helpful, and so I guess I don't know what it is meaning in "English."
Part II: Write something reflective about the reading.
I am taking Math History right now and we are discussing set theory and group theory and how that started to develop, and reading this chapter made me think back to the different views on math in the 20th century. I always thought math has always been there and we discover it, but reading this chapter gets me thinking of the other view that math may have been something we created to solve our problems. I can see how group arithmetic is starting to be similar to normal arithmetic and it seems like it was sort of constructed so it would be like that. Crazy.
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