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Fascinating stuff. I've now done maths for some years now and this is the first time I even hear about sheafs.

Makes one wonder what else you may have missed just because it's not something profs at your programme are interested in.

edit. Follow-up. I wonder if there's a list of curious and possibly useful math stuff you might easily miss because it's not as ubiquitous and 'canonical' as (e.g.) analysis, linear algebra or functional analysis?



I had sheaf theory at an advanced algebraic geometry course, essentially you need them to define schemes. They are on the "you won't need this unless you go for a PhD" area, usually, although they are not that weird (I found schemes weirder than sheaves for some reason)


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