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Here is the actual statement of the problem. We haven't discussed algebra or linear ring homomorphisms, as far as I'm aware, but then again I usually can't tell what's going on in class. I believe we defined our rings so that they always have an identity element.

Could I hear more about how x and 1 generate the ring? For some reason I can't even locate a section about ring generators in Artin or D&F (we don't have an official textbook). Right now it looks to me like they would generate all polynomials with integer coefficients, but not complex.