Math 360, Fall 2019, Assignment 7
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Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed and repulsive to commmon sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
- - Lord Kelvin
Carefully define the following terms, then give one example and one non-example of each:
- Generator (of a cyclic group).
Carefully state the following theorems (you need not prove them):
- Theorem concerning integer division.
- Well-ordering property of the positive integers.
- Classification of cyclic groups.
Solve the following problems:
- Section 6, problems 1, 3, 9, 10, 17, 19, 33, 34, 35, 36, and 37.
- Prove that $GL_1(\mathbb{R})$ is not cyclic. (Hint: think about its cardinality.)