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the following property of prime numbers, known as Euclid's lemma: if is a prime number and if divides a product of two integers, then divides or divides . We can therefore say

:A positive integer is a prime number if and only if is a prime ideal in The set of prime ideals of a commutative ring R is known as its (prime) ''spectrum'' and

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