John Sidles writes on Scott Aaronson’s blog:
The ongoing acceleration of global mathematical culture has produced a surplus of Grothendiecks and a paucity of Dieudonnés; in consequence “accelerated” intelligences already are walking among us; it is natural for STEM workers (young and old alike) to be simultaneously exhilarated and frightened by this reality.
The Stacks project, “maintained” by my office neighbor Johan de Jong, is a collective and strikingly successful solution to this problem that tonight is celebrating its 5000’th page.
The eight IHES volumes of EGA, in contrast, come to a total of 1814 pages; printed, however, on high quality paper.
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