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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 4 11G i Solution by
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For each , maximality implies a nontrivial relationHere , since otherwise this would contradict the linear independence in a module of . Thus . Take , with empty product equal to one. Because is an integral domain, . Every satisfies , and this is also true for . Expressing any element of the finitely generated module as an -linear combination of now gives . This is clearing denominators relative to an independent module subset; it does not require to be a field.
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