Timeline for Motivation for concepts in Algebraic Geometry
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| Jan 21, 2010 at 3:21 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | RE your PS: I think that is great as long as you can develop an intuition for that definition. I think mathematics is filled with examples of definitions which were "too abstract", but were later shown to be great conceptual and pedagogical improvements. For instance, I think Van Kampen's Theorem is much more clearly in the "abstract" form given by Peter May in his book as a statement about colimits of groupoids: It gives a much clearer picture (for me) than the "amalgamated product" formulation of old. Even more basic, examples are given by negative numbers, abstract groups, ... etc | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 21:57 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | I've merged the two users, but the login problem is still there. | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 21:53 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | @Qiaochu: there were some problems with the rollout of beta 6 this morning and Georges isn't able to log in. Hopefully this issue will be resolved soon. See tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/172/… | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 21:11 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Georges, you seem to have duplicated yourself! | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 21:11 | comment | added | Rob Harron | The red book is what I would suggest as well. | |
| Jan 20, 2010 at 21:08 | history | answered | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |