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The first purpose of schemes theory is the geometrical study of solutions of algebraic systems of equations, not only over the real/complex numbers, but also over integer numbers (and more generally over any commutative ring with 1). It was finalized by Alexandre Grothendieck, during the 1950s and the 1960s.

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Do affine schemes form a Mal'cev category?

The category of affine schemes is not Mal'cev. This can be disproven by producing an reflexive, non-symmetric relation on an affine scheme $X$ whose graph is a closed subscheme of $X\times X$. … Since the category of affine schemes contains the category of finite sets (with $[n]\rightarrow Spec(\mathbb{C}^n)$, one can choose any reflexive, non-symmetric relation on a finite set (since they are …
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Jacobian criterion for smoothness of schemes

I believe you need to be careful if $A$ is not over a perfect field. When $A$ is over a perfect field, the Jacobian ideal is the $r$th fitting ideal of the module of differentials, and so it is canon …
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Intuition for rational functions

Your intuition is confusing the 'fiber over a point' with `restriction to a closed subscheme'. In general these can be very different, even if they come from the same place conceptually. Rational fu …
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