Noetherian ring

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A ring in which every ascending chain of ideals stabilises (equivalently, every ideal is finitely generated). Hilbert basis theorem: k[x_1,…,x_n] is Noetherian. Backbone of commutative/algebraic-geometric finiteness.

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