Do you need commutative algebra for Milne's Algebraic Number Theory course?

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I have completed Artin's Algebra. I was wondering if you need anything else or can I go ahead with Milne's course. I'm not providing a link since his lecture notes are very well known...

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You can read the first few pages of the course notes to find out.

Prerequisites

The algebra usually covered in a first-year graduate course, for example, Galois theory, group theory, and multilinear algebra. An undergraduate number theory course will also be helpful.

The name of the first chapter is

  1. Preliminaries from Commutative Algebra

That should be enough to begin with. The first footnote to the first sentence in the first chapter says

See also the notes A Primer of Commutative Algebra available on my website.

Those notes are found here: A Primer of Commutative Algebra.