Ringed Space

In mathematics, a ringed space is, intuitively speaking, a space together with a collection of commutative rings, the elements of which are "functions" on each open set of the space. Ringed spaces appear throughout analysis and are also used to define the schemes of algebraic geometry.

Read more about Ringed Space:  Definition, Examples, Morphisms, Tangent Spaces, OX Modules

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