Preferences

1) the properties of a field is missing closure under the operation. This is kind of assumed from context, but I would include it.

2) the reduction step up multiplication of nth order polynomials (to keep them nth order) is missing (or at least I missed it after a couple of readings.)

Apart from those quibbles, this was really good overall though. I enjoyed it.


susam
A binary operation on a set is closed on the set by definition. If an operation isn’t closed, then it isn’t considered a binary operation on that set. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to state the closure property explicitly.

I have talked a bit more about it in a totally unrelated blog post here: https://susam.net/product-of-additive-inverses.html#closure-...

bananaflag
Indeed, I was quite pleasantly surprised when the webpage did not mention this infamous and ubiquitous "closure".

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