Comment by CamperBob2

Comment by CamperBob2 3 days ago

Looks like a nice book, but what's up with his assertion on page 148 (164 of the .pdf) that the integers don't form a group under addition?

If he defines integers as "natural numbers excluding zero," that seems goofy and nonstandard but also interesting. Is that a Russian-specific convention?

steppi 3 days ago

It seems like a typo where "integers" is used when the intention was to write "natural numbers". That is the solution to exercise 194 part a) which asked if the set of natural numbers is a field.

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CiaranMcNulty 2 days ago

Whether 0 is a natural number is still fairly ambiguous; I remember being taught (1990s UK) to be specific about which definition was being used, or to prefer another name such as 'positive integers' or 'non-negative integers'

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adgjlsfhk1 3 days ago

notation has unified dramatically since the 1960s.

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