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is a way to have versions of theorems 'with parameters', i.e. allowing for continuous variation, for which the 'frozen' version reduces the parameters to
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in foundational matters. Assuming that we don't have a commitment to one 'set theory' (all topoi are in some sense equally set theories for some
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from about 1956 is usually cited as the key moment for the introduction of this circle of ideas. The more classical types of
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situations, with a rough meaning of taking for consideration families of 'objects' explicitly depending on
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to replace the 'point' idea with that of treating an object, such as
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is a fixed object. This idea is made formal in the idea of the
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In other applications, this way of thinking has been used in
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In the usual formulation, the point of view treats, not
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heuristic
mathematical
parameters
Alexander Grothendieck
algebraic geometry
category theory
categorical logic
objects
morphisms
slice category
Beck–Chevalley conditions
fiber product
Yoneda lemma
representable functor
Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem
Riemann–Roch theorem
final object
constants
topos theory
set theory
intuitionistic logic
category theory
Fiber product of schemes
"Base change"
Encyclopedia of Mathematics
EMS Press
Categories
Scheme theory
Category theory

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