On Copernicus and Grothendieck

The slides of my recent talk at the conference in honor of Jean-Jacques Szceciniarz are available here:

The talk presents an analogy between the role of the Sun in Copernicus’ vision and that of Grothendieck toposes as ‘bridges’ between different mathematical theories, by building on the general notion of a ‘bridge’ object:

The Sun as a ‘bridge’ object

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