Timeline for Why A. Weil considered elimination theory to be eliminated?
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| Nov 30, 2013 at 11:05 | comment | added | Al-Amrani | In a recent publication "Résultant, Discriminant"(Enseign.Math.58(2012)), Michel Demazure attributes the famous "Il faut éliminer la théorie de l'élimination" to Dieudonné ! | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | Abdelmalek Abdesselam | I wouldn't say "the use of elimination theory in intersection theory led to contradictions". Whatever mistakes or contradictions happened, they are not to be imputed to the theory itself but to the sloppiness of its users. | |
| Oct 10, 2013 at 22:51 | history | edited | S. Carnahan♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
appended answer 144510 as supplemental
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| Oct 4, 2013 at 6:30 | answer | added | Piotr Achinger | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 3, 2013 at 21:58 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Probably it was some combination of Chevalley's work on specialization (rendering the explicit use of elimination theory unnecessary) and Weil's inability to resist a play on words. | |
| Oct 3, 2013 at 21:44 | history | asked | Al-Amrani | CC BY-SA 3.0 |