The most difficult part of this section was understanding the proof of corollary 2.10 and foreseeing how it will be useful.
The most interesting part was theorem 2.8 and the general rules that always hold when n is prime.
Corollary 2.10 didn't make sense at the time because I didn't understand the logic that they used when doing the proof and I also didn't see how it could be useful. After doing it in class, the proof makes sense and I understand the process. I found theorem 2.8 interesting simply because whenever p is prime, then if statement 2 is true, statement 3 is also true. It's just interesting to me the way that happens to work out for any case where p is prime.
What was difficult about the proof of corollary 2.10? Can you explain more about why it wasn't clear, and about why theorem 2.8 is interesting?
ReplyDeleteCorollary 2.10 didn't make sense at the time because I didn't understand the logic that they used when doing the proof and I also didn't see how it could be useful. After doing it in class, the proof makes sense and I understand the process. I found theorem 2.8 interesting simply because whenever p is prime, then if statement 2 is true, statement 3 is also true. It's just interesting to me the way that happens to work out for any case where p is prime.
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