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| | Spectra of Rings |
 | | The spectrum of a ring is always compact, thus cannot be isomorphic to Euclidean n-space. |
 | | Thus in fact every proper ideal of the ring R of continuous functions on a compact interval has a common zero, hence the ideal is contained in the maximal ideal corresponding to that point, and by maximality must equal it. |
 | | Indeed the definition of dimension of a spectrum is (one less than) the length of a strictly nested chain of prime ideals, such as (0), (x), (x,y), in K[x,y], where K is a field. |
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