From Weil’s foundations to schemes
neverendingbooks,
Last time, we’ve seen that the first time ‘schemes’ were introduced was in ‘La Tribu’ (the internal Bourbaki-account of their…
how much to spend on (cat)books?
neverendingbooks,
My favourite tags on MathOverflow are big-lists, big-picture, soft-question,reference-request and the like. Often, answers to…
Mach on the value of history and philosophy of science.
if-then knots,
Hat tip to Ralf Krömer’s “Tool and Object: a history and philosophy of category theory” where I found this bit of support for…