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This chapter describes the origins of commutative algebra and follows its development through the landmark papers published by David Hilbert in 1890 and 1893. Three major strands of nineteenth-century activity lie behind commutative algebra and are still its primary fields of application: number theory, algebraic geometry (the algebraic aspect really begins with Riemann’s “function theory”), and invariant theory. We shall say a little about developments in each.
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Eisenbud, D. (1995). Roots of Commutative Algebra. In: Commutative Algebra. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 150. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5350-1_3
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