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| Jan 7, 2022 at 1:05 | comment | added | KConrad | @coudy Stone's paper appeared in 1936. The correspondence between points on an algebraic variety (in affine space over $\mathbf C$) and maximal ideals in a polynomial ring is based on Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (1890). Work on giving algebraic foundations to algebraic geometry based on ideal theory was done in the 1920s and 1930s (e.g., generic points by van der Waerden in 1926). This preceded Stone's work. | |
| Jan 7, 2022 at 0:21 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @coudy: I added an answer to your comment to my answer on the question. | |
| Jan 7, 2022 at 0:20 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2022 at 20:20 | comment | added | coudy | 1930? Are you sure? As far as I know, the work of Marshall Stone on boolean algebras was motivated by quantum mechanics and preceded the work of Gelfand or of the algebraic geometers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
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| Jan 2, 2022 at 16:36 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |