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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
I am unsure it fits the OP's requirements but, in connection with Ryan Budney's most-upvoted answer regarding the rediscovery of trapezoidal method, let me recall that Grothendieck spent about three y …
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What are your favorite concrete examples of limits or colimits that you would compute during...
(The title was initially "What are your favorite concrete examples that you would compute on the table during lunch to convince a working mathematician that the notions of limits and colimits are not …
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In which situations can one see that topological spaces are ill-behaved from the homotopical...
In the eighties, Grothendieck devoted a great amount of time to work on the foundations of homotopical algebra.
He wrote in "Esquisse d'un programme": "[D]epuis près d'un an, la plus grande partie d …