Timeline for About Grothendieck and special cases
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| Dec 14 at 1:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 14 at 0:43 | answer | added | user45673211 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 27 at 7:09 | answer | added | Tim Porter | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 26 at 22:10 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | @LSpice since that is the quote in the linked question, I would doubt it. | |
| Nov 26 at 20:57 | comment | added | LSpice | This is not the remark about looking for categories with complicated objects but good categorical properties in place of categories with simple objects but worse categorical properties, right? | |
| Nov 26 at 18:30 | comment | added | rimu | No, that quote was well-known even to me. :) I could have not mixed up the two quotes. | |
| Nov 26 at 18:28 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Maybe you are thinking of Grothendieck's famous analogy about his approach to solving problems being like soaking a nut in water to open it (see e.g. ncatlab.org/nlab/show/The+Rising+Sea). | |
| Nov 26 at 18:23 | history | asked | rimu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |