1. What was the most difficult part of the material for you?
Wow. No joke, I'm struggling with a couple of things in this chapter. As I was reading it, and things were getting jumbled together, I kept thinking "Geez Loueez, I wish they'd just give an example or two." Then, they gave two examples. I definitely followed the first one, but the second, holy cow. Is it just me? or are there some issues with 2.4.4.2? I mean, in that table it has a 1 beneath the x. Shouldn't that be an x(bar)? Also, why does the number 1 have order 4? Shouldn't 1 have order 1? And 2 has order 2? Doesn't 2x2=4? Not 8 or 15? (I wasn't sure which it should equal in this case. In fact, I'm kind of confused about this group of units from a non prime n for mod n. Does that make sense? I really remember (and almost enjoy) cyclic groups, and I remember orders of groups and elements, but this chapter lost me.
2. What was the most interesting part of the material?
Hmmmm... this is a tough on because I really struggled with this chapter. The entire time I was reading it I was kind of wondering if we'd be talking about that thing we did in Abstract Algebra last year. I don't remember exactly what it was.... but with these cyclic groups we divided them into subgroups where those subgroups were all of equal order and I think it had something to do with associates. Crap. What was that called? I don't even remember. Anyway, I just kept thinking about that as I was reading page 31 that listed so many theorems.
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