Exercises
Let
Define addition and multiplication in
by
and
Definition 5.1a:
Suppose
is a set in which a relation of equality, denoted by
and
is a ring with respect to these operation if the following conditions are satisfied :
1)
is closed under addition:
2) Addition in
is associative:
3)
4)
5) Addition in
6)
is closed under multiplication:
7) Multiplication in
8) Two distributive laws holds in
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