Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (strong)
Over an algebraically closed field, the ideal of a variety is the radical of the defining ideal.
Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (strong): Let be an algebraically closed field and let be an ideal in the polynomial ring. Let
Then
where denotes the radical of an ideal.
This identifies geometric vanishing with algebraic nilpotence modulo and implies, for instance, that varieties correspond to radical ideals and irreducible varieties correspond to prime ideals.