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Theorems on rings and modules are often proved by first establishing them in the case of local rings or modules over local rings, where this is often simpler, and then arguing from the”local” to the “global.”
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Kunz, E. (2013). The local-global principle in commutative algebra. In: Introduction to Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5987-3_4
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