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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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Intuitive Example of a Jacobson Radical
I think my favourite characterization for rings with identity is that y is in the Jacobson radical of R if and only if 1-yx is right invertible for any x in R - so y is sufficiently "zero-like" that m …
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Some intuition behind the five lemma?
One can think of the five lemma in terms of the two four lemmas. I think this makes it clearer... for instance drop the $A_1$ and $B_1$ from your diagram. If the maps from $A_2$ and $A_4$ to $B_2$ and …
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How to think about model categories?
One can also view model structures as a solution to the problem of when is a localization of a category locally small. In other words when one wants to invert a collection of morphisms the morphisms i …