Meaning of commutative ring | Babel Free

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A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative.

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“Among commutative rings, the polynomial rings in a finite number of indeterminates enjoy important special properties and are frequently used in applications.”

“As usual, it is simpler to begin by looking at a more general setting—in this case, commutative rings—before getting involved with polynomial rings. It turns out that the nature of the ideals in a commutative ring is important: for example, we have already seen that gcd's exist in PIDs, while this may not be true in other commutative rings.”

“In trying to understand the ideal theory of a commutative ring, one quickly sees that it is important to first understand the prime ideals. We recall that a proper ideal P in a commutative ring R is prime if, whenever we have two elements a and b of R such that ab#92;inP, it follows that a#92;inP or b#92;inP; equivalently, P is a prime ideal if and only if the factor ring R#47;P is a domain.”

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