Why is this on the front page of hacker news? Hopefully that comes across as a genuine question and not snark. I mean as an ex-mathematician I'm thrilled, but schemes are an incredibly abstract object used in an incredibly abstract branch of mathematics (algebraic geometry).
in many educational systems, aptitude in math (the more abstract, the better) is conflated with intelligence. so maybe many of us have internalized we should valorize it?
(I studied schemes 10 years before, but I quit maths in 2000 so this book wouldn't have helped me. It seems like a good introduction, looking at the TOC. Grounded on actual geometry, not just category theory like other textbooks).
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https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/12/can_one_explain...
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...
(2014)
With someone actually trying in 2002, using TFB for inspiration & M2 as a very early Jupyter/sage
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://mast.que...
(These bloggers as well as creator of M1 may want to chip in a dozen cts)
(I studied schemes 10 years before, but I quit maths in 2000 so this book wouldn't have helped me. It seems like a good introduction, looking at the TOC. Grounded on actual geometry, not just category theory like other textbooks).
Also, the racoon ?!