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Steven Landsburg
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When a finitely generated ideal is contained in a union of maximal ideals

For a commutative ring $R$ with 1, it is well known that if an ideal is contained in the union of all maximal ideals, then it contained in one of them. I want to know why the following is true or is there any condition on $R$ that it is true:

Let $I$ be a finitely generated ideal, and let $\{\frak{m}_i\}$ be an infinite family of maximal ideals with $I\subseteq \cup_i\frak{m}_i$. Then there exists $j$ such that $I\subseteq \frak{m}_j$.

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