Counterexample bank
Part C is won by knowing which tempting claims are false. 149 counterexamples; 86 free to read right now. Pick your subject below.
Knowing the claim is false is half of it. The mistakes that cost marks shows the wrong options candidates actually pick, and the reasoning slip behind each one.
Complex Analysis, Algebra & Topology
False — has no subgroup of order 6
False —
False — f(z) = sin(z)/z at 0
False — has order 12 but no subgroup of order 6
False — ⟨(12)(34)⟩ ⊴ ⊴
False — has the normal subgroup {e, (12)(34), (13)(24), (14)(23)}
False — Impossible — if G/Z is cyclic then G is abelian, so G/Z is trivial
False — of order 6 = 2·3
False — (X) in , or (0) in any integral domain that is not a field
False — 2 in
False —
False — The field of all algebraic numbers Q̄ over
False — has degree 3 but only the identity automorphism
False — ∖ in
False — id : , discrete, usual), or t ↦ (cos t, sin t) from to
False — The unit ball of
False — with the usual topology
False — An infinite set with the cofinite topology
False — for z ≠ 0, f(0) = 0
False — sin(1/z) on ∖{0}
False — f(z) = 1/z on the annulus ½ < |z| < 2
False — f(z) = eᶻ on {Re z < 0}
False — f(z) = sin z / z at 0
False — The indentation at 0 when computing dx
False — f(z) = eᶻ on
False — Liouville's theorem