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A field that is a finite-type integer algebra has prime characteristic or zero. Prime characteristic and Zariski lemma make it a finite algebraic extension of a finite prime field. In characteristic zero, the same lemma makes it a number field; clearing finitely many coefficient denominators makes it integral over $\mathbb{Z}[1/N]$. The integral field extension forces the base domain to be a field, but a prime not dividing $N$ is not invertible there. This contradiction excludes characteristic zero.

A nilpotent element belongs to every prime ideal and therefore to every maximal ideal, soFor the reverse containment, let $r$ be nonnilpotent. The localization of a ring $S=R[1/r]$ is nonzero: if $1=0$ there, some power of $r$ would annihilate $1$ in $R$. This is still a finite-type integer algebra, because it can be presented as $R[T]/(rT-1)$.

Choose a maximal ideal $\mathfrak{n}$ of $S$. Its residue field $L=S/\mathfrak{n}$ is a finite-type integer algebra, hence finite by part (a). Consider the image $F$ of $R$ in $L$. It is a finite integral domain containing $1$, so it is a field: multiplication by a nonzero element is injective on the finite set $F$, hence surjective, and therefore has an inverse in $F$.

The kernel $\mathfrak{m}$ of $R\to F$ is consequently maximal. The image of $r$ is nonzero, since $r$ became a unit in $S$ and remains a unit in its nonzero residue field. Thus $r\notin \mathfrak{m}$. Every nonnilpotent element can therefore be avoided by a maximal ideal, givingThis radical equality for finitely generated integer algebras uses part (a) to ensure that the contraction of the localized maximal ideal is maximal. Such contraction is not generally maximal for arbitrary localization of a ring; the finite-field image is the decisive additional step. The zero ring is immediate, with the intersection of its empty set of maximal ideals understood as the whole ring. No general theorem that integer algebras are Jacobson rings is being quoted.

For a finite-type integer algebra, a nonnilpotent element $r$ gives a nonzero localization of a ring $R[1/r]$. A maximal ideal there has finite residue field by the finite-field theorem for finitely generated integer algebras. The image of $R$ in that field is a finite integral domain, hence a field. Its kernel is therefore maximal in $R$ and avoids $r$. Nilpotents lie in every maximal ideal, proving the radical equality. Applying the same argument to every prime quotient shows that these algebras are Jacobson rings. Merely contracting a localized maximal ideal without the finite-image argument would not prove maximality.