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		mahalex 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry ... “Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.

madcaptenor 5 months ago [–]

The current version is more "textbook" than "notes", but like many textbooks it originated as lecture notes because no sane person would sit down and write a textbook.

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