06.3 Local-to-Global
6.3 Local-to-Global Principles A local-to-global principle studies an object by examining small parts and then asking whether those local facts determine the whole. This pattern appears whenever a large structure is too complex to understand directly. Local information is information available near a point, on a small region, or on a restricted part of an object. Global information concerns the entire object. For example, a curve may look like a...