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posted on 1992-01-01, 00:00 authored by Walter Noll

These are sketchy lecture notes intended to show that the concepts of divisibility, prime elements and prime-decompositions are most efficiently treated in the framework of monoids. The results then apply both to the multiplicative monoid of the natural numbers and that of the monic polynomials over a field.

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