{
  "id": "2405.10387",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-05-16T18:32:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-05-16T18:32:19.000Z",
  "title": "Grothendieck's use of equality",
  "authors": [
    "Kevin Buzzard"
  ],
  "comment": "Write-up of my talk given at the conference \"Grothendieck, a Multifarious Giant: Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy\" at Chapman University",
  "categories": [
    "math.AG",
    "math.NT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss how the concept of equality is used by mathematicians (including Grothendieck), and what effect this has when trying to formalise mathematics. We challenge various reasonable-sounding slogans about equality.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-05-16T18:32:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03A05",
      "14A99",
      "11R37",
      "11R39"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "grothendieck",
      "formalise mathematics",
      "mathematicians"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}