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2 unusual facts about Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie


Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie

In the 1990s it became obvious that the lack of availability of the SGA was becoming more and more of a problem to researchers and graduate students in algebraic geometry: not only are the copies in book form too few for the growing number of researchers, but they are also difficult to read because of the way they are typeset (on an electric typewriter, with mathematical formulae written by hand).

(The name came from the small wood on the estate in Bures-sur-Yvette where the IHÉS was located from 1962.)



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