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'''Dedekind domain''' is a [[Noetherian Ring|Noetherian]] [[Commutative Algebra|commutative ring]] in which every nonzero ideal factors uniquely into a product of prime ideals. Introduced by Richard Dedekind in the 1870s to rescue unique factorization in algebraic number fields, Dedekind domains are the arithmetic counterpart to smooth algebraic curves: both are characterized by the absence of singularities in their ideal structure.

The theory of Dedekind domains underlies [[Class Field Theory|class field theory]] and the modern arithmetic of elliptic curves. They are the simplest rings in which the ideal theory is fully understood — the [[Unique Factorization Domain|unique factorization domains]] of algebraic number theory.

''Dedekind's invention of ideals was not a workaround for the failure of unique factorization; it was the discovery that factorization was never about elements. The primes are the ideals, and the elements are merely their representatives.''

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