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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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Why are flat morphisms "flat?"

I remember the following two quotes about flatness (I forgot who said/wrote this): For every geometric description of flatness there is a counterexample. Flatness is one of the few notions in algebr …
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Examples and intuition for arithmetic schemes

Perhaps this is too special but ramification of primes in number fields is a nice motivation, here you can also draw funny pictures of curves over Spec(Z). The step from here to Dedekind schemes is im …