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Pierre-Yves Gaillard
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What interesting/nontrivial results in Algebraic geometry require the existence of universes?
Has Grothendieck ever used expressions such as "Axiom of Choice", "Zermelo-Fraenkel", "proper class", etc?
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What interesting/nontrivial results in Algebraic geometry require the existence of universes?
In my humble opinion, Grothendieck's main motivation for introducing the Axiom of Universes was to make Category Theory Bourbaki compatible. Actually, this is implicit in Harry Gindi's statement of the question. Harry writes "this relative approach makes proper classes pointless". But from Bourbaki's perspective, the expression "proper class" just doesn't make sense. In short (in my interpretation of Grothendieck's thought) the function of this axiom was to make Category Theory soundly founded.
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Added exercise (i.e. proof of the FTGT).
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Galois descent, explicit inverse map
Dear Martin: You can take a look at Theorem 5.6.3 p. 305 in Algèbre et théories galoisiennes by Douady and Douady.
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Cardinality of the permutations of an infinite set
(My browser can't read your k!) I hesitated to give this argument. I told myself "the most naive way to attach a subset to a permutation is to form the set of fixed points" ...
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
Added example of the real line.
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Rewrote the "answer".
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What is your favorite proof of Tychonoff's Theorem?
Loomis's proof could be dubbed "Tychonoff's Theorem for dummies". That's why I like it!
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