Ravi Vakil
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“Finally, if you attempt to read this without working through a significant number of exercises (see §0.0.1), I will come to your house and pummel you with [Gr-EGA] until you beg for mercy. It is important to not just have a vague sense of what is true, but to be able to actually get your hands dirty. As Mark Kisin has said, “You can wave your hands all you want, but it still won’t make you fly.”
― Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
― Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
“Do not be seduced by the lotus-eaters into infatuation with untethered abstraction.”
― The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
― The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
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