I was reading Foundations of Module and Ring Theory and i found this equivalence of maximal left ideal as exercise in the the first chapter:
A left ideal $I$ of a ring $R$ is a maximal if and only if for each $r ∈ R-I$ there is some $s∈R$ such that $1-sr∈I$.
Which im trying to figure out the proof :/
Suppose $I$ is a maximal left ideal in the ring $R$ and let $r\in R-I$; then $Rr+I$ is a left ideal of $R$ properly containing $I$, so, by the maximality assumption, $Rr+I=R$ and therefore $1\in Rr+I$.
Conversely, suppose $I$ satisfies the condition and let $J$ be a left ideal of $R$ properly containing $I$. Choose $r\in J-I$; by the condition, there is $s\in R$ such that $t=1-sr\in I$. Thus $1=t+sr\in J$ and $J=R$.
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