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Appendix D Examples

0.1 Sets and functions

Example 0.1.7
Example 0.1.11 Power set
Example 0.1.13
Example 0.1.14 Arithmetic operations as functions
Example 0.1.20 Role of domain and codomain in injectivity and surjectivity

0.2 Logic

Example 0.2.3
Example 0.2.7 Modeling “Every positive number has a square-root”
Example 0.2.10 The limit does not exist

0.3 Proof techniques

Example 0.3.3 Proof: invertible is equivalent to bijective
Example 0.3.4 Proof by contradiction
Example 0.3.8 Weak induction
Example 0.3.10 Strong induction

1.1 Groups

Example 1.1.4 \(\GL_n(R)\) is nonabelian
Example 1.1.11 Order of inverse
Example 1.1.12 Element of infinite order

1.2 Modular arithmetic

Example 1.2.3 Congruence modulo \(3\)
Example 1.2.12 Modular arithmetic
Example 1.2.13 Least residue
Example 1.2.15 Modulus \(n=5\)
Example 1.2.16 Units modulo \(9\)

1.3 Matrix groups

Example 1.3.3 \(\GL_2(\Z/2\Z)\)

1.4 Dihedral groups

Example 1.4.2 Isometries
Example 1.4.6 Computing in \(D_3\)
Example 1.4.7 Dihedral geometry

1.5 Permutations

Example 1.5.3 Permutations: table notation
Example 1.5.8 Cycle decomposition

1.6 Homomorphisms

Example 1.6.4 Homormorphisms
Example 1.6.7 Permutation groups

1.7 Group actions

Example 1.7.2 Group actions
Example 1.7.5 Isomorphisms

1.8 Subgroups

Example 1.8.4 Examples
Example 1.8.6 Cyclic groups
Example 1.8.8 Subgroups of \(D_n\)
Example 1.8.11 Kernel and image
Example 1.8.14 Centralizer, normalizer, center

1.11 Cosets and Lagrange’s theorem

Example 1.11.4 Cosets in \(\Z\)
Example 1.11.5 Cosets in \(\Z/12\Z\)
Example 1.11.6 Cosets in \(D_4\)

1.12 Quotient groups

Example 1.12.4 Normality in \(D_4\)
Example 1.12.5 Abelian groups
Example 1.12.7 Normality in \(S_4\)

1.13 First isomorphism theorem

Example 1.13.5 First isomorphism theorem
Example 1.13.6 First isomorphism theorem: \(\SL_n(R)\)
Example 1.13.7 First isomorphism theorem: \(\R/\Z\)

1.16 Alternating subgroup

Example 1.16.4 Sign of permutations
Example 1.16.6 \(A_4\)

1.18 Group actions: orbits

Example 1.18.4 Rotational symmetries of a tetrahedron
Example 1.18.5 Rotational symmetries of a tetrahedron

1.19 Class equation

Example 1.19.4 Class equation: abelian groups
Example 1.19.5 Class equation: \(D_8\)
Example 1.19.11 Class equation: \(A_5\)

1.20 Sylow theorems: intro

Example 1.20.4 Sylow subgroups of \(S_3\)
Example 1.20.5 Sylow subgroups of cyclic groups
Example 1.20.6 Sylow subgroups of \(A_4\)
Example 1.20.7 Sylow subgroups of \(S_4\)
Example 1.20.13 Action of \(D_3\) on \(2\)-subsets

1.22 Sylow theorems: applications

Example 1.22.5 Groups of cardinality 20

1.24 Semidirect products

Example 1.24.6 Groups of cardinality 21
Example 1.24.7 Groups of cardinality \(12\)
Example 1.24.8 Groups of cardinality \(28\)

2.1 Rings

Example 2.1.4 Trivial ring
Example 2.1.9 Center of a ring

2.2 Subrings, units, zero divisors

Example 2.2.3 Units in product rings
Example 2.2.5 Division rings
Example 2.2.8 Zero divisors

2.3 Group rings, polynomials, power series

Example 2.3.3 Group ring of \(D_3\)
Example 2.3.5 Group ring properties
Example 2.3.9 Polynomial degree
Example 2.3.11 Units of polynomial and power series rings

2.5 Ring homomorphisms and ideals

Example 2.5.5 \(\Hom(\Z/3\Z, \Z/2\Z)\)
Example 2.5.8 \(\Hom(\Z[x],R)\)
Example 2.5.12 Augmentation map
Example 2.5.14 Trivial ideals
Example 2.5.19 Ideals of \(\Z\)
Example 2.5.22 Ideals of division rings
Example 2.5.23 Ideals of \(M_n(R)\)

2.6 Quotient rings and isomorphism theorems

Example 2.6.1 Modular rings
Example 2.6.5 Quotient ring homomorphisms
Example 2.6.7 First isomorphism theorem
Example 2.6.8 Ideals of \(\Z/n\Z\)
Example 2.6.9 Quotients of \(\Z/n\Z\)

2.7 Prime and maximal ideals

Example 2.7.2 Division ring
Example 2.7.3 Maximal ideals of \(M_n(F)\)
Example 2.7.4 Maximal ideals of \(\Z\)
Example 2.7.7 Prime and maximal ideals of \(\Z\)

2.8 Case study: polynomial rings

Example 2.8.14 Quotients by linear polynomials
Example 2.8.15 Quotients of \(\R[x]\)
Example 2.8.16 Field of cardinality 25

2.9 Chinese remainder theorem

Example 2.9.7 CRT for integers
Example 2.9.11 CRT in polynomial rings

2.10 Localizations and fraction fields

Example 2.10.8 Fraction fields
Example 2.10.16 Localizing at an element: \(\Z_2\)
Example 2.10.17 Localization of \(\Z[x]\)

2.11 Euclidean domains

Example 2.11.10 GCD in polynomial ring
Example 2.11.11 Ideal generator in \(\Z[i]\)

2.12 PIDs and UFDs

Example 2.12.3 \(\Z[\sqrt{-5}]\) is not a PID

2.15 Multivariate polynomial rings and monoid algebras

Example 2.15.8 Prime ideal in \(R[x,y]\)
Example 2.15.11 Failure of division algorithm
Example 2.15.13 Monoid examples

2.16 Factorization over integral domains

Example 2.16.5 Reduction mod \(I\text{:}\) cubic
Example 2.16.6 Reduction mod \(I\text{:}\) quartic
Example 2.16.8 Eisenstein
Example 2.16.9 Eisenstein: \(n\)-th roots in UFD

2.17 Modules

Example 2.17.2 Ring objects as modules
Example 2.17.3 Modules over fields
Example 2.17.4 Modules over \(\Z\)

2.18 Direct sums and free modules

Example 2.18.2 \(R[x]\) and \(R[[x]]\) as \(R\)-modules
Example 2.18.5 Finitely generated modules
Example 2.18.9 Homomorphisms between free modules

2.20 PID-module structure theorems: proofs

Example 2.20.2 \(p\)-primary components
Example 2.20.5 Aligned basis for \(\Z[i]\) as \(\Z\)-module
Example 2.20.19 Aligned bases
Example 2.20.20 Computing a cokernel