Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Section 2.4.2

1. What was the most difficult part of the material for you?
It's a small paragraph, and maybe I just need a review on quotient rings and such, but the paragraph that starts "This theorem is actually a special case..." on page 24 kind of lost me. Maybe it isn't so important right now, since I followed everything else in this section, but that was the most difficult part of the reading for me.

2. What was the most interesting part of the material?
Initially I was going to say that Wilson's Theorem (2.4.2.3, pg. 26) was the most difficult part of the reading. But, as I was re-reading it in preparation for this blog, one sentence at a time, I thought the logic was really fascinating. I'm glad it wasn't assigned as a homework problem, since I don't think I would have ever thought about proving it in that way, but it really helped me revisit modular arithmetic in a way I hadn't thought of yet this semester.

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