# MA2215: Fields, rings, and modules ```MA2215: Fields, rings, and modules
Homework problems due on October 8, 2012
1. (a) Describe all ring homomorphisms from Z/3Z to Z/3Z.
(b) Describe all ring homomorphisms from Z/3Z to Z/2Z.
2. In class, we checked that R[x]/(x2 + 1)R[x] ' C. Show that R[x]/(x2 − 1)R[x] ' R &times; R.
(Hint: consider the map between these rings that takes the coset of f(x) modulo the ideal
(x2 − 1)R[x] to the pair of numbers (f(1), f(−1)). Show that this map is well defined and gives
an isomorphism.)
3. (a) Show that every quotient ring of a commutative ring is commutative. (b) Show
that every quotient ring of a ring with unit has a unit.
4. Let R be the set of all triangular 2 &times; 2-matrices with integer entries,
a b
R=
: a, b, c ∈ Z .
0 c
0 b
a 0
: a, c ∈ Z . Show that I is an ideal of R, S is a
Take I =
:b∈Z , S=
0 c
0 0
subring but not an ideal, and that S ' R/I.
```
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