Timeline for Elliptic curves and algebraic stacks
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 21:51 | vote | accept | Qiao | ||
| Jul 20, 2010 at 22:20 | comment | added | Ryan Reich | That's true. It's not clear which parts are necessary, but I think in fact that just about everything is relevant since so much of the theory of schemes has word-for-word generalizations to stacks. However, simply to understand the definition of an algebraic stack, you need at least to really appreciate the concept of base change (i.e. fibered product) and know what a smooth morphism is. To understand what is going on, you also have to love the functor of points. This is experiential knowledge; you can't research it, you can only assimilate it. Hence, "learn algebraic geometry first". | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 22:06 | comment | added | Charles Staats | Telling someone "you should learn algebraic geometry" is like telling them "you should learn math." Obviously you don't mean all of it, but it's not clear which parts are necessary/relevant, or where the stopping point should be. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 19:03 | history | edited | Ryan Reich | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 20, 2010 at 16:23 | history | answered | Ryan Reich | CC BY-SA 2.5 |