Re: Prime ideals in Z[x]

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:35:31 +0000 (UTC)

In article <codmt2$col$1@news.onet.pl>, sirix <sirix@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>Greetings!
>How do prime ideals in Z[x] look like? I know Z[x] is noetherian, but I
>couldn't find any prime ideal that would have more than two generators,
>so... maybe there isn't any? :-)

Here is a post with an answer to that question, from Bill Dubuque:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=y8zr83oaofh.fsf%40nestle.ai.mit.edu

You can safely ignore my quoted response, which is harder than it
should be. 

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