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Section Day 19

This is an outline of the topics we covered in the nineteenth 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 Thursday 7/26

Reminders/Announcements.

Proof.

Note: Most of our examples have unique factorization, but not all are PIDs

Definition 198. Unique Factorization Domain.

An integral domain \(D\) is a unique factorization domain (UFD) if
  1. every nonzero non-unit element of \(D\) can be written as a product of irreducible elements of \(D\)
  2. this factorization is unique up to associates and order of the factors.
Note: Not all domains are UFDs! You’ll show this.

Proof.

Proof.