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Questions asking for the intuition behind some definition, conjecture, proof etc. In other words, questions designed to improve or to acquire understanding on a conceptual or intuitive level, as opposed to on a technical or formal level. When asking such a question it can be helpful to include a rough description of ones understanding of the subject at hand (on a technical level).

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How to introduce notions of flat, projective and free modules?

Hi Pete, this sounds like a lot of fun! I wish I could be there (-: Here is a concrete and useful property of flatness, you can explain it without using Tor. Suppose $R\to S$ is a flat extension. T …
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Gaining intuition for how submodules behave

Then the submodules of $R$ are just the ideals of $R$, which are concrete enough to check your intuition, but still possess a very rich structure so that not much is lost. …
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