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Jet Nestruev's proof that the exterior derivative $d$ on a real line is not a Kähler differential $d_{C^\infty(\mathbb{R})/\mathbb{R}}$

The relation between the exterior derivative $d:C^\infty(\mathbb{R})\to\Omega^1\mathbb(\mathbb{R})$ and the Kähler differential $d_{C^\infty(\mathbb{R})/\mathbb{R}}:C^\infty(\mathbb{R})\to\Omega_{C^\...
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Semantics of derivations as derivatives

My understanding of how derivations on commutative rings are like derivatives is that a derivation on $R$ is differentiation with respect to a vector field on $\text{Spec}(R)$. But derivations are ...
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"Canonical" form for gauge equivalence classes of matrices in $\mathfrak{gl}_n(x)$

Let $\mathfrak{gl}_n(x)= \mathfrak{gl}_n \otimes_\mathbb{C}\mathbb{C}(x)$ be the algebra of matrices taking values in rational functions. Definition: Two matrices $A, B \in \mathfrak{gl}_n(x)$ are ...