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Connections Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry: "Do we want a new foundation for ‘higher structures’"

Presenter
February 1, 2024
Keywords:
  • Noncommutative geometry
  • derived categories
  • Derived Algebraic Geometry
  • Infinity Categories
  • Deformation Theory
  • Categorical Resolutions
MSC:
  • 14A22
Abstract
At its current state of the art, ∞-category theory is challenging to explain even to specialists in closely related mathematical areas. Nevertheless, historical experience suggests that in, say, a century's time, we will routinely teach this material to undergraduates. This talk describes one dream about how this might come about --- under the assumption that 22nd century undergraduates have absorbed the background intuitions of homotopy type theory/univalent foundations. To illustrate the utility of this alternate foundational system, we'll share a new computer formalized proof of the ∞-categorical Yoneda lemma that reveals how close it is to the classical proof of the 1-categorical Yoneda lemma.