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Commutative Algebra

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Commutative algebra is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, the ideals inside them and the modules built over them, forming the algebraic foundation that both algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry are built on. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Central Question
Which properties of a commutative ring, above all the structure of its ideals, determine whether elements factor uniquely, and how the ascending chain condition Emmy Noether formalized separates rings with tractable structure from those without it. 1
Key Debate
How far Wolfgang Krull's introduction of localization and completion could carry the subject toward a fully geometric picture of a ring. Krull's principal ideal theorem is widely considered the field's single most important foundational result, and the abstract, ring-based approach Hilbert and Noether pioneered displaced the older, more computational methods of classical invariant theory, a methodological shift that took decades to complete. 1
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Pure Mathematics 1
Commutative Algebra
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Source Homological Conjectures in Commutative Algebra (Wikipedia)
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Source Krull's principal ideal theorem (Wikipedia)
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Source Spectrum of a Ring (Wikipedia)
Source Wolfgang Krull (Wikipedia)
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1. Commutative Algebra (Wikipedia)
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  • Introduction
    the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings
  • Overview
    Commutative algebra is essentially the study of the rings occurring in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry
  • History (Noether)
    recast many earlier results in terms of an ascending chain condition, now known as the Noetherian condition
  • History (Krull)
    The main figure responsible for the birth of commutative algebra as a mature subject was Wolfgang Krull, who introduced the fundamental notions of localization and completion of a ring
  • History (Krull's theorem)
    Krull's principal ideal theorem is widely considered the single most important foundational theorem in commutative algebra
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Monomial Conjecture, Wikipedia
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In commutative algebra, a field of mathematics, the monomial conjecture of Melvin Hochster says the following: Let A be a Noetheri
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Homological Conjectures in Commutative Algebra (Wikipedia)
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ectures have been a focus of research activity in commutative algebra since the early 1960s.
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Going up and going down (Wikipedia)
Includes: Going-Up and Going-Down Theorems, Lead sentence
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In commutative algebra, a branch of mathematics, going up and going down are terms which refer to certain properties of chains of
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Elementary Symmetric Polynomial (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for
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Krull Dimension (Wikipedia)
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In commutative algebra, the Krull dimension of a commutative ring R, named after Wolfgang Krull, is the supremum of the lengths of
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Spectrum of a Ring (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, and more specifically in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, the prime spectrum (or simply the spectrum) o
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Krull-Akizuki theorem (Wikipedia)
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Serre's Multiplicity Conjectures (Wikipedia)
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after Jean-Pierre Serre, are certain problems in commutative algebra, motivated by the needs of algebraic geometry.
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Noether normalization lemma, Wikipedia
Includes: Noether Normalization Lemma, Lead sentence
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as a theorem rather than a lemma) is a result of commutative algebra, introduced by Emmy Noether in 1926.
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Krull's principal ideal theorem (Wikipedia)
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Wolfgang Krull (Wikipedia)
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commutative algebra
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