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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0755.00013.] The author investigates the relationship between prime and maximal ideals in an associative algebra \(A\) and its mutations \(A(p,q)\). He determines all prime ideals in a given mutation and shows that there exists a one- to-one correspondence between prime (maximal) ideals in \(A\) and prime (maximal) ideals in \(A(p,q)\), under some regularity conditions on \(p\) and \(q\). If \(A\) is an associative algebra and \(p\) and \(q\) in \(A\) are such that \(id(p-q)\), i.e. the ideal, generated by \(p-q\), equals \(A\), then there are bijective maps \({\mathbf R}:\text{Max}(A)\to\text{Max}(A(p,q))\) and \({\mathbf I}:\text{Max}(A(p,q))\to\text{Max}(A)\) preserving containments and such that \({\mathbf R}\circ{\mathbf I}\) and \({\mathbf I}\circ{\mathbf R}\) are the corresponding identity maps. (\(\text{Max}(B)\) is the set of maximal ideals in \(B\), not containing \(B^ 2\).) The results are applied to the determination of the Baer ideal \(B(A)\) of an algebra \(A\) (i.e. the intersection of all prime ideals of \(A\)) and the semi-prime ideals of \(A(p,q)\).