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Past exam of the algebra, analysis and differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford 2011 3 b Solution by
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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 givesas a ring isomorphism. This includes or , where the corresponding factor is the zero ring.
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