🧵 Polynomials

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:43:19 UTC No. 16254748

While reading Israel Gelfand's "Algebra" book I noticed something curious. Namely that polynomials dont include division. For example a^-7 is not a mononomial, nor is x^y. (you can find this on page 44 of his book). I was wondering why is this the case?