The Proj construction allows us to define the projective space \mathbb{P}^n(k) in a new way, namely as \text{Proj}k[x_0, \ldots, x_n]. One advantage of this approach is that it emphasizes the symmetry of \mathbb{P}^n(k): we glue all basic opens D_+(f) instead of just D_+(x_i), as in the previous approach. In particular, in this new construction, it is easy to see that D_+(f) are affines, whereas in the previous construction, the corresponding sets are not clearly affine (except for D(x_i).
We now show that these two constructions agree.
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