By David M Bressoud; S Wagon

ISBN-10: 0470412151

ISBN-13: 9780470412152

By David M Bressoud; S Wagon

ISBN-10: 0470412151

ISBN-13: 9780470412152

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The following statements are equivalent. (1) R is a field. (2) R contains no proper, nontrivial ideals. 52 1. PRELIMINARIES-GROUPS AND RINGS Proof. Let R be a field and I a nonzero ideal of R. Then I contains a nonzero element x. Since R is a field, x has an inverse x-I in R. But then, since I is an ideal of R, the element 1 = x X-I is in I. Now, for all r E R, r = r 1 E I so that I = R. Now suppose that R contains no proper, nontrivial ideals. Let x be a nonzero element of R. Then the principal ideal generated by x, Rx, is nonzero and hence must equal R.

R .... N .... t .... then, for each i, r == ri (mod nil as claimed. D. 6]. If nl, n2, . ,nu are pairwise relatively prime natural numbers, and n = nl n2 ... n u , then Proof. Define () : Z - Znl X Zn2 X ••• X Znu by (}(m) = (kl (m), k2(m), . 3] that () is a homomorphism of groups with kernel the subgroup nZ of Z. We must show that () is surjective. Let (kl(rI), k 2(r2), ... • X Znu with ri E Z for i = 1, ... / By the Chinese Remainder Theorem, there is an element r E Z such that, for all i, r == ri (mod ~).

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