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Let $A$ be a commutative ring with unit and $\mathcal{M}$ the set of all the maximal ideals of $A$.

I need to prove that $$\mathfrak{m}\not \subseteq \bigcup_{\mathfrak{a}\in \mathcal{M}\setminus \{\mathfrak{m}\}} \mathfrak{a}$$ for every $\mathfrak{m}\in \mathcal{M}$.

I get to this statement trying to prove a remark on Neukirch's Algebraic Number Theory that says that if $\mathcal{F}$ is a set of prime ideals of $A$ omitting only finitely many primes, then if $S=(\cup_{\mathfrak{p}\in \mathcal{F}}\mathfrak{p})^c$ we have that the prime ideals of $AS^{-1}$ are of the form $\mathfrak{q}S^{-1}$ where $\mathfrak{q}$ is a prime ideal of $A$ contained in a prime ideal of $\mathcal{F}$ [Page 66]. (I was able to prove that the statement above is equivalent to this)

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    http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/51362/can-a-prime-in-a-dedekind-domain-be-contained-in-the-union-of-the-other-prime-id/51417#51417 – A.G Feb 10 '17 at 19:08
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    There are some great answers there. Thanks for the reference! you can put it as an answer to close the question. – nowhere dense Feb 10 '17 at 19:17

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