A3.4

Groups, Rings and Fields
Part II, 2002

(i) What does it mean for a ring to be Noetherian? State Hilbert's Basis Theorem. Give an example of a Noetherian ring which is not a principal ideal domain.

(ii) Prove Hilbert's Basis Theorem.

Is it true that if the ring R[X]R[X] is Noetherian, then so is R?R ?