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Does anyone have a link to Hilbert's Original Proof of the Nullstellensatz, or know a book where it's printed? I'd be interested to see what it was like. I only really know the Noether normalisation and Zariski proofs. While these are both good, it would be nice to have it 'from the horse's mouth'!

Many thanks in advance.

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    Wikipedia hints that it's Hilbert, David (1890), "Ueber die Theorie der algebraischen Formen", Mathematische Annalen 36 (4): 473–534, doi:10.1007/BF01208503, but I haven't found it after a quick look at the paper (and I don't know German).2012-08-21
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    It's probably in Hilbert's collected works: [Gesammelte Abhandlungen](http://www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cgi-bin/digbib.cgi?PPN237833719), volume 2 on Algebra.2012-08-21

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According to Eisenbud, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz can be found in:

The statement of the theorem appears at the bottom of p. 320, if I'm not mistaken. (I don't read German, however!)

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    I am able to read German and I can confirm your finding. Very good reference, thank you!2012-08-22
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    An anonymous user [suggested an edit](http://math.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/10503) that was rejected just before I could accept it, so I took the liberty of incorporating it because I found it useful, as not everyone has access to the Springer Link articles.2012-08-22
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    Fantastic - thanks very much!2012-08-22