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Month: October, 2009

Some nice introductory/expository papers

29 October, 2009 in category Mathematics for non-mathematicians, english, mathematics by Konrad.

On Math Overflow, someone asked for a single paper everyone should read. Here I repeat those which were particularly nice to read for me.

Table of contents from (parts of) Grothendiecks work found on the ‘net

22 October, 2009 in category english, mathematics by Konrad.

Thanos Papaïoannou has put together the table of contents for the most important Grothendieck books. Could be useful to look up a specific term.

Classifying Riemann surfaces

21 October, 2009 in category english by Konrad.

I sketch a (well-known) classification of Riemann surfaces. I wrote this because I couldn’t find a quick overview of the classification on the web. References for further reading in the wikipedia are given in the text.

Walk-through to Morel-Voevodsky: A¹-homotopy theory of schemes (1999)

20 October, 2009 in category Walkthrough to Morel-Voevodsky A1-homotopy theory, english by Konrad.

As I’m currently reading Voevodskys paper on A¹-homotopy theory of schemes, I will by and by write a little “walk-through” with hints & comments on how to find additional information to better (or even start to) understand the paper.