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In his studies of cyclotomic fields, in view of establishing his monumental theorem about Fermat’s last theorem, Kummer introduced “local” methods.
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Ribenboim, P. (1999). Introduction. In: The Theory of Classical Valuations. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0551-7_1
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