Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sections 2.1 and 2.2, due August 31

The lemma that said the inductive property is equivalent to the well-ordering property did not make sense to me. I think part of the problem in understanding this book is that it is a different writing style and things are explained differently than in the abstract algebra book we used. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it as time goes on. I do like that so far we're pulling from things I understood well in 371 and I think it's interesting that the basis of number theory comes from so many basic concepts.

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