Timeline for Where can I learn about Formal Schemes?
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| Dec 13, 2010 at 2:03 | comment | added | roy smith | Isn't this topic a generalization of zariski's theory of holomorphic functions? maybe those old papers would convey the idea. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 17:26 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | I once tried looking up "conoyau" before seeing "noyau" (= kernel). That was fun. | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 5:44 | comment | added | roy smith | this may seem nuts, but you probably can read french if you try. e.g. "theoreme" = theorem. "epreuve" = proof = "demonstration", "algebrique" = algebraic,.... you do need a few verbs, but it is well worth the effort to learn them. take my word for it, give it a few more minutes... e.g. start with serre's fac. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 11:03 | answer | added | Leo Alonso | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 9:56 | comment | added | Leo Alonso | Perhaps you may try EGA I new edition after all. You will have to struggle with the language for a week, but after that you'll realize that the sentences are of a few types and the vocabulary is relatively limited. The exposition there is complete and lucid, so the effort will pay off. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 5:16 | comment | added | jlk | Illusie's article is also available on his website (math.u-psud.fr/~illusie). | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 4:04 | comment | added | BCnrd | Read Illusie's exposition (in English!) of the important and awe-inspiring results from EGA III$_1$ in the book "FGA Explained". That should clear up everything (motivation, technique, ways to think about and work with them, etc.). Note that the deepest results are in the proper case (just like GAGA). By the way, practice the math French; well worth the effort, and needs virtually no knowledge of real French. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 4:04 | comment | added | Evan Jenkins | A free draft version of the Illusie chapter BCnrd suggested is available at (cdsagenda5.ictp.it//…). | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 3:44 | answer | added | Harry Gindi | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 3:38 | history | asked | Brian | CC BY-SA 2.5 |