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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Algebraic structure''' β A set equipped with one or more operations satisfying specified axioms; the central object of abstract algebra. * '''Group''' β A set G with an operation Β· satisfying: closure, associativity, identity (eΒ·a = aΒ·e = a), and inverses. * '''Abelian group''' β A group where the operation is commutative (aΒ·b = bΒ·a); named after Niels Abel. * '''Ring''' β An abelian group under addition with a distributive multiplication; e.g., integers β€, polynomials, matrices. * '''Field''' β A ring where every non-zero element has a multiplicative inverse; e.g., β, β, β, finite fields π½_p. * '''Homomorphism''' β A structure-preserving map between algebraic structures; f(aΒ·b) = f(a)Β·f(b). * '''Isomorphism''' β A bijective homomorphism; two isomorphic structures are "algebraically identical." * '''Subgroup''' β A subset of a group that is itself a group under the same operation. * '''Normal subgroup''' β A subgroup N of G where gNgβ»ΒΉ = N for all g β G; needed to form quotient groups. * '''Quotient group (factor group)''' β G/N: the group of cosets of a normal subgroup N in G. * '''Lagrange's Theorem''' β The order of any subgroup of a finite group divides the order of the group. * '''Sylow Theorems''' β Theorems about the existence and structure of subgroups of prime-power order in finite groups. * '''Galois theory''' β Studies field extensions and their automorphism groups; resolves which polynomial equations are solvable by radicals. * '''Vector space''' β A set with addition and scalar multiplication over a field; the setting for linear algebra. * '''Ideal''' β A subset of a ring absorbing multiplication; quotient rings are formed using ideals. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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