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- From: yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: What waves in light waves? (was Re: TIME HAS INERTIA)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:50:06 GMT
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- In article <DREIER.92Dec18100700@durban.berkeley.edu>, dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:
- >
- > Even more troubling for me, as a student of modern algebraic geometry,
- > is the concept of schemes. How can one have a "scheme" in the absence
- > of someone scheming?
- > --
- The schemimg was done by Grothdieck and Dieudonne, who sat around thinking
- of a way to stick it to those preservering individuals who had plowed through
- and mastered Weil's "Foundations". You see, the whole EGA development
- was nothing more than a big practical joke. THus the name "schema"!
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- Charles Yeomans
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- P.S. This isn't historically accurate, as far as I know.
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