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Prime Ideal

An Ideal $I$ such that if $ab\in I$, then either $a\in I$ or $b\in I$.

See also Dedekind Ring, Ideal, Krull Dimension, Maximal Ideal, Stickelberger Relation, Stone Space




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26