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Fields
Which number systems can stand in for the reals as scalars: the field axioms, and the rationals, complexes, and modular arithmetic that meet them.
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5 exercises
Exercise 1
Check that the real numbers form a field.
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Exercise 2
Prove that these are fields.
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(a) The rational numbers (b) The complex numbers
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Exercise 3
Give an example that shows that the integer number system is not a field.
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Exercise 4
Check that the set is a field under the operations listed above,
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Exercise 5
Give suitable operations to make the set a field.
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Adapted from Linear Algebra © 2016 Jim Hefferon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Source: Linear Algebra. Imported at revision df2262e.