Difficult: I had a difficult time understanding most of this section, however probably the most difficult was the concept of associates. I think this might be something rather simple and I am probably just overthinking it, but I don't really understand exactly what they are and how they are used in the subsequent proofs in the section.
Reflective: I think it's really interesting that all nonconstant polynomials can be written as the product of irreducibles. It had never occurred to me that this might be the case. It is so cool that there is so much overlap between polynomials and the integers, and yet still some key differences as well, such as the units in the polynomials.
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