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Krull dimension
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Etymology
Named for Wolfgang Krull, for his work on the height of finitely generated ideals of en noetherian ring rings. The term dimension is from the correspondence between the geometric dimension of an affine variety and the Krull dimension of its coordinate ring.
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en commutative algebra of a commutative ring The supremum of the lengths of all chains of prime ideals.
en Algebra