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Oct 15, 2008

Kapranov-Smirnov on F_un

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“One can postulate, of course, that spec(F_un) is the absolute point, but the real problem is to develop non-trivial consequences of this point of view.”


Sep 20, 2008

John Baez on F_un

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Lots of mathematicians don’t know about this “field with one element” problem – they’re going to wake up too late and find mathematics transformed while they were snoozing! John Baez