Saturday, June 6, 2015

Model theory and algebraic geometry, 4 — Elimination of imaginaries

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The fourth post of this series is devoted to an important concept of model theory, that of elimination of imaginaries. The statement of Scan...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Model theory and algebraic geometry, 3 — Real closed fields and o-minimality

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In this third post devoted to some interactions between model theory and algebraic geometry, we describe the concept of o-minimality and the...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Model theory and algebraic geometry, 2 — Definable sets, types; quantifier elimination

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This is the second post in a series of 4 devoted to the exposition of interactions between model theory and algebraic geometry. In the first...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Model theory and algebraic geometry, 1 — Structures, languages, theories, models

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Last november, I had been invited to lecture at the GAGC conference on the use of model theoretic methods in algebraic geometry. In the last...
Monday, March 23, 2015

When Lagrange meets Galois

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Jean-Benoît Bost told me a beautiful proof of the main ingredient in the proof of Galois correspondence, which had been published by Lagrang...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Galois Theory, Geck's style

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This note aims at popularizing a short note of Meinolf Geck, “ On the characterization of Galois extensions ” , Amer. Math. Monthly 121 (2...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith at The Stone

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I just had the chance to attend two sets with Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith tonight! That happened at The Stone , a small music room in NY...
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