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Homework for MTH 419H Honors Algebra II Spring Semester 2016 Section 001 Homework due 01/15/2016: Ch. 8 # 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Homework due 01/22/2016: Ch. 8 # 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 Homework due 01/29/2016: Ch. 8 # 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 , 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12 Homework due 02/05/2016: Ch. 8 # 4.20, 4.21, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2 Homework due 02/12/2016: Ch. 8 # 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.12, 6.13 Suggested problems: Ch. 9: # 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 Homework due 02/26/2016: Ch. 11 # 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 2.2 and The Freshman’s Dream (see below). The Freshman’s Dream: Prove that in the ring R = Z/nZ that (a + b)n = an + bn for each a, b ∈ R provided that n is a prime. Is the dream true if n is not prime? What if n is a power of a prime? Homework due 03/14/2016: Ch. 11 # 3.3 (a,b,c), 3.4, 3.8, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 (a,b,c) Homework due 03/18/2016: Ch. 11 # 5.1, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 7.1 (try to prove this without assuming that 1 ∈ R), 7.3 Homework due 03/30/2016: Ch. 12 # 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 Homework due 04/11/2016: Ch. 12 #2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 ***EXAM II is on Thursday, 04/14/2016 at 5:30 p.m.*** (This is a change from the original date of 04/072016.) Homework due 04/20/2016: Ch. 12 # 4.4, 4.9, 4.15, 4.16; Ch. 15 # 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6 Homework due 04/27/2016: Ch. 15 # 3.7, 3.10, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.4, 7.8, 10.1 Additional Problems (not collected): Ch. 16 #3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.4, 7.6 1 Solutions 8.1.1 Show that a bilinear form h, i on a real vector space V is a sum of a symmetric form and a skew-symmetric form. Solution: 1 1 hv, wi = (hv, wi + hw, vi) + (hv, wi ? hw, vi) 2 2 8.2.1 Prove that the maximal entries of a positive de?nite, symmetric, real matrix are on the diagonal. Solution: Let A be a positive de?nite s