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A prime ideal in a ring is an ideal whose complement is multiplicatively closed, meaning if a product of two elements is in the ideal, then at least one of the elements is in the ideal. Prime ideals are fundamental in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra as they generalize the notion of prime numbers to more abstract algebraic structures, serving as building blocks for the structure of rings.
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