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Section Day 14

This is an outline of the topics we covered in the fourteenth day of class. The skeleton notes are in a handout, which can be printed out using the printer icon at the top right of its section of the page for filling in during class. Filled notes for each day will be posted after class to Canvas.

Handout Tuesday 7/7

Reminders/Announcements.

Proof.

Proof.

Quotient Rings.

If \(A\) is a subring of a ring \(R\text{,}\) then we can form additive cosets of \(A\) in \(R\) as with groups,
\begin{equation*} R/A = \{r+A\mid r \in R\}\text{.} \end{equation*}
We have
\begin{equation*} (r+A)+(s+A)=(r+s)+A \end{equation*}
a well-defined operation since \((R,+)\) is Abelian. What about
\begin{equation*} (r+A)(s+A) = rs + A\text{?} \end{equation*}
Question: Is this a ring?
Answer:

Definition 151. Ideal.

An ideal is a subring \(I\) of a ring \(R\) such that for any \(a\in I\) and \(r\in R\text{,}\) we have \(ar,ra\in I\text{.}\)

Example 152. Ideals and Non-Ideals.