A2.4 B2.3
Part II, 2001
(i) Show that the ring is a field. How many elements does it have?
(ii) Let be as in (i). By considering what happens to a chosen basis of the vector space , or otherwise, find the order of the groups and .
By considering the set of lines in , or otherwise, show that is a subgroup of the symmetric group , and identify this subgroup.