Timeline for Why are flat morphisms "flat?"
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| Jun 17, 2013 at 1:43 | comment | added | roy smith | I seem to have stumbled by accident on how to invoke TEX, just try to use dollar signs for actual dollars. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 1:42 | comment | added | roy smith | when I bought mine in maybe 1967, I think the original red book was about $\$ $4. Of course Harvard tuition was only $\$ $1250 a year in 1960. – | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 13:39 | comment | added | KConrad | Jose, you can get the book for about $5 at biblio.mccme.ru/node/1856/shop, but the downside is that you need to read Russian. On the plus side, it is genuinely a red-colored book. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 5:21 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | I assume "$10" was a way of indicating the edition. | |
| Nov 28, 2009 at 20:53 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | You have an awesome eyesight, Jose. Thanks a lot for spotting this devastating Freudian slip :) | |
| Nov 26, 2009 at 12:32 | comment | added | Jose Capco | Red Book is $10?? where do I get that? :) | |
| Nov 25, 2009 at 22:12 | comment | added | Andrew Critch | I don't like the way people use quote (2), because although it's true that flatness was originally motivated algebraically, it demotivated me for a long time to try thinking of a geometric motivation that is meaningful a priori... now that I have one, I'm much happier, and wish someone had just said that instead! (see my answer) | |
| Nov 25, 2009 at 14:30 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Your second quote might be Mumford's remark (in his Red Book, Chapter III, $10) : "The concept of flatness is a riddle that comes out of algebra, but which technically is the answer to many prayers". I didn't know the first quote: it is very witty, thanks for posting it. | |
| Nov 25, 2009 at 13:39 | history | answered | user717 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |