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Fascinating stuff. I've now done maths for some years now and this is the first time I even hear about sheafs. Makes one wonder what else you may have missed j
by maus42 10y ago
Fascinating stuff. I've now done maths for some years now and this is the first time I even hear about sheafs.
Makes one wonder what else you may have missed just because it's not something profs at your programme are interested in.
edit. Follow-up. I wonder if there's a list of curious and possibly useful math stuff you might easily miss because it's not as ubiquitous and 'canonical' as (e.g.) analysis, linear algebra or functional analysis?
- pizza 10y agocheck out nLab
- RBerenguel 10y agoI had sheaf theory at an advanced algebraic geometry course, essentially you need them to define schemes. They are on the "you won't need this unless you go for a PhD" area, usually, although they are not that weird (I found schemes weirder than sheaves for some reason)