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1) The category of affine varieties over $\mathbb{C}$ is equivalent to the opposite category of finitely generated reduced algebras over $\mathbb{C}$. The equivalence associates to an affine variety ...

I have been thinking a bit about rings of continuous functions of various kinds -- how they motivate the more modern notion of the Zariski topology on the prime spectrum as well as how they fit into a ...

In this question it was claimed that if a module $M$ over a noetherian domain $R$ satisfies $\rm{Ext}^i(M,R)=0$ for $i=1,2$, then $M$ is reflexive. Is this true? Does someone know a reference or a ...

For an abelian group $A$, put $DA=\text{Hom}(A,\mathbb{Z})$ and $D_{(p)}A=\text{Hom}(A,\mathbb{Z}_{(p)})$. It is a theorem of Specker that when $A$ is free abelian of countable rank, the natural map $...