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Section Day 15

This is an outline of the topics we covered in the fifteenth day of class. The skeleton notes are in a handout, which can be printed out using the printer icon at the top right of its section of the page for filling in during class. Filled notes for each day will be posted after class to Canvas.

Handout Thursday 7/9

Algebraist of the Day.

David Eisenbud, 1947-present
  • American mathematician working in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry
  • Director of MSRI at Berkeley from 1997-2007 and 2013-2022, Professor at UC Berkeley
  • Author of the book Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry, one of the most widely used books in commutative algebra
  • Two papers on the mathematics of juggling

Reminders/Announcements.

Definition 157. Prime and Maximal Ideals.

Let \(R\) be a commutative ring. A proper ideal \(I\) of \(R\) is prime if \(ab\in I\) implies \(a\in I\) or \(b \in I\text{.}\) A proper ideal \(I\) of \(R\) is maximal if the only ideal properly containing \(I\) is \(R\text{:}\) if \(J\) is an ideal and \(I \subseteq J \subseteq R\) then either \(I=J\) or \(J=R\text{.}\)

Example 158. Prime and Maximal Ideals in \(\Z\).

Example 159. Prime and Maximal Ideals in \(\Z[x]\).

Proof.