Timeline for Why and how did preschemes become schemes?
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| Feb 16, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Dear Charles, the last paragraph of my answer is pretty silly and is to be taken as such. I certainly did not want to criticize your interesting question and am sorry if I gave this false impression. I just meant to convey the sycophantic atmosphere surrounding Grothendieck at the time . It is all hearsay anyway (I wasn't around), but reliable hearsay from several sources. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 20:12 | comment | added | Charles Staats | I did not mean to imply that "people" did not include Grothendieck; obviously, it did. (If you'll note, my question specifically referred to the "first edition of EGA," since the second one, insofar as it exists, uses the new terminology.) In any case, while I don't mean to deny interest in who exactly was involved in the terminology shift, I am more interested in the motivation for it. I am editing the question a bit to make this more clear. | |
| Feb 16, 2011 at 19:28 | history | answered | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |