Examples
Usual arithmetic
Modular arithmetic
Polynomial rings
Residue class rings
The Gaussian integers
Z, Q, R, C are all
domains.
It is sufficient to note that C is a domain, since then a forteriori
all of its subrings are domains.
The ring Z/nZ is a domain if and only if
n is a prime.
The polynomial ring
R[
X] is a domain if and only if
R is a domain. For a proof,
see
the next page.
If R is a field, then f
is an irreducible polynomial in R[X]
if and only if
R[X]/(f) is a domain.
The Gaussian integers
Z+
Zi is a domain.
(It is a subring of the domain C.)