Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense

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Longest Path Search About Code Fun Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense Posted 2026-04-30 This is mostly a bunch of notes to myself (with some slight expansion) and is a combination/extension/simplification of theorems/ideas/constructions from a bunch of texts, including Wistbauer’s “Foundations of Module and Ring Theory” and Fuhrmann’s “A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra”, along with others that at this point I don’t recall. While most of the things here ar

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