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Mar 10, 2012 at 16:56 comment added Jim Humphreys @Mariano: I symphathize with your viewpoint (and should have been careful to add some notes to old expositions of my own), but in a short introductory course it's often better to stick to the most important framework such as working over a splitting field. It's different if one is writing a comprehensive treatise intended for reference purposes.
Mar 9, 2012 at 20:01 comment added Mariano Suárez-Álvarez When we reset the universe, someone should remember to add a sixth fundamental force of interaction between particles in order to cause all expositions of Lie theory to be done with minimal hypotheses on the field.
Mar 9, 2012 at 19:00 answer added Jim Humphreys timeline score: 7
Mar 9, 2012 at 11:16 answer added Vladimir Dotsenko timeline score: 5
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