| Description: Define a subring of a
ring as a set of elements that is a ring in its
       own right and contains the multiplicative identity.
 
       The additional constraint is necessary because the multiplicative
       identity of a ring, unlike the additive identity of a ring/group or the
       multiplicative identity of a field, cannot be identified by a local
       property.  Thus, it is possible for a subset of a ring to be a ring
       while not containing the true identity if it contains a false identity.
       For instance, the subset           of         (where
       multiplication is componentwise) contains the false identity
             
which preserves every element of the subset and thus
       appears to be the identity of the subset, but is not the identity of the
       larger ring.  (Contributed by Stefan O'Rear,
27-Nov-2014.)  |