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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00066.] It was R. B. Warfield who initiated the study of non-Artinian serial rings, and this excellent paper is a fitting tribute to his memory. In particular Warfield showed that every Noetherian serial ring is a direct sum of Artinian rings and prime rings, and he determined the structure of prime Noetherian serial rings. Since then his work has been extended in various directions, one of which has been the study of prime serial rings with weakened versions of the Noetherian condition. Let \(R\) be a prime serial ring. Then \(R\) is Noetherian non-Artinian if and only if \(R\) has Krull dimension 1. Warfield's structure theorem in the Noetherian case was first extended by Wright to the case in which \(R\) has Krull dimension 2, then by the reviewer to the case when \(R\) has finite Krull dimension, and then by Wright to the case when \(R\) has arbitrary Krull dimension. The present paper, building on earlier work with Singh, removes any assumption about Krull dimension and gives the structure of an arbitrary prime Goldie serial ring in terms of tiled matrices over valuations on division rings.