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Have an apoplectism https://agorism.dev/book/math/ag/royal-road-algebraic-geometry_audun-holme.pdf https://agorism.dev/book/math/ag/royal-road-algebraic-geomet

Have an apoplectism https://agorism.dev/book/math/ag/royal-road-algebraic-geometry_audun-holme.pdf https://agorism.dev/book/math/ag/royal-road-algebraic-geomet... Also iirc, various books titled Royal Road to Geometry, which might make more sense given that IMO geom was the first to get crushed by chatbots Ymmv, but denying existence of royal road to math seems like a narcissism limited to the most elite layity

seanhunter 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. That book looks very interesting although I'll need a bit more algebra before I can really tackle it properly. Not sure I fully understand your point about narcissism and laity. If Euclid and I are laity then I think I'm happy to be called that though. For me the "royal road" refers to the idea that you can take shortcuts and understand things without putting in the work. That just does not ring at all true to my experience with maths anyway.