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| | Math 250: Higher Algebra (2001-2) |
 | | Indeed f is separable (since f'=-1), and its q roots in a splitting field are closed under the field operations (cf. |
 | | You should already be familiar with, or willing to quickly learn on your own, the material in 1.1 (basic definitions, Schur's lemma, etc.), 1.2 (characters and their orthogonality), and 1.3.4 (the group algebra, introduced in 250a). |
 | | In the proof of Lemma 3.35 (page 40), it might not be obvious that lambda is a positive real. |
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