Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-analysis-and-differential-equations-1-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/3/b/solution

Take , and . Since are coprime integers, Bézout's identity gives , so . Their intersection is : it consists of integers divisible by both and , and coprimality makes this equivalent to divisibility by . Thus the Chinese remainder theorem gives
as a ring isomorphism. This includes or , where the corresponding factor is the zero ring.

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