Definition:Bézout Domain/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Bézout Domain
The definition of an integral domain, and even that of a ring, was not formulated until over a century after the death of Étienne Bézout.
However, a Bézout domain bears his name because in such an algebraic structure, each pair of elements satisfies an algebraic formulation of Bézout's Identity.