Timeline for Jokes in Miles Reid's 'Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry' [closed]
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| Sep 25, 2010 at 6:10 | vote | accept | Robert Garbary | ||
| Sep 24, 2010 at 22:01 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Yes, Yemon, it is the book called "Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry", not the Commutative Algebra one. I hope the quotation you give will entice our colleagues into reading Miles Reid's polemical sociological observations. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 21:31 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @Georges: Is that the book where he quotes someone saying sarcastically "but the twisted cubic is an excellent example of a pro-representable functor"? Or is that in his Undergraduate Commutative Algebra? | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 21:22 | history | closed |
Andrew Stacey Yemon Choi José Figueroa-O'Farrill Steve Huntsman Victor Protsak |
not a real question | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:53 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | I can't recommend enough reading the "history and sociology of the modern subject", starting on page 114. It is a funny but also incredibly opinionated and informed piece: I have rarely read anything as blunt written about a group of mathematicians (namely Parisian algebraic geometers). | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:29 | comment | added | Will Jagy | On page 87 he has (GOTO (5.9) if you want to avoid a headache) which is similar to the indexed jokes. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:26 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | It might have something to do with the "Central electricity" on the ruled surface. I have not been that long in the UK to actually understand the joke, though. It's questionable whether this is an appropriate question, though. I'm voting to close. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:23 | answer | added | Georges Elencwajg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:21 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Much as I'm fond of UAG, I'm inclined to regard this question as "too localized". | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:21 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Sorry, but I don't think that this is an appropriate question for MO. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:19 | comment | added | danseetea | Maybe "Central Electricity" in the top figure? | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:16 | comment | added | algori | Well, may be that's the joke. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 20:08 | history | asked | Robert Garbary | CC BY-SA 2.5 |