Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2004/ib/paper-4/12f/i/solution

In the polynomial ring , the ideal is nonzero and prime: the quotient ring is isomorphic to the integral domain , by evaluation at zero. It is not maximal, since that quotient is not a field. Equivalently . Thus is a nonzero prime ideal which is not maximal.

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