Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-analysis-and-differential-equations-2-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/algebra/3/d/solution

Certainly , by taking exponent one. If , choose with . Primality applied to gives or . In the latter case repeat; induction reduces to . Thus as well, proving
Every prime ideal is therefore a radical ideal.

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