Introduction to Commutative Algebra M. F. ATIYAH, FRS UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD I. G. MACDONALD A vv ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY Reading, Massachusetts Menlo Park, California - London - Don Mills, OntarioCopyright © 1969 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. Alll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in Great Britain. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72-79530.Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Contents Introduction . Notation and Terminology . Rings and Ideals. Rings and ring homomorphisms . Ideals. Quotient rings . Zero-divisors. Nilpotent elements. Units. Prime ideals and maximal ideals . Nilradical and Jacobson radical Operations on ideals Extension and contraction . Exercises Modules . Modules and module homomorphisms Submodules and quotient modules Operations on submodules. Direct sum and product Finitely generated modules Exact sequences . Tensor product of modules . Restriction and extension of scalars . Exactness properties of the tensor product Algebras... Tensor product of algebras Exercises . Loe Rings and Modules of Fractions Local properties. Extended and contracted Exercises . leals in rings of fractions Primary Decomposition Exercises . Soauwnn= ts 17 18 19 2 21 22 a 28 29 30 a 36 41 43 50 =