Alexander Grothendieck

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commonplace and tolerated. The letter also expressed his belief that totally unforeseen events before the end of the century would lead to an unprecedented collapse of civilization. Grothendieck added however that his views were "in no way meant as a criticism of the Royal Academy's aims in the administration of its funds" and he added, "I regret the inconvenience that my refusal to accept the Crafoord prize may have caused you and the Royal Academy."

6314: 724:, given that he had refused to take French nationality (as that would have entailed military service against his convictions). He stayed in São Paulo (apart from a lengthy visit in France from October 1953 - March 1954) until the end of 1954. His published work from the time spent in Brazil is still in the theory of topological vector spaces; it is there that he completed his last major work on that topic (on "metric" theory of 1317:('Harvests and Sowings', 1986), Grothendieck describes his approach to mathematics and his experiences in the mathematical community, a community that initially accepted him in an open and welcoming manner, but which he progressively perceived to be governed by competition and status. He complains about what he saw as the "burial" of his work and betrayal by his former students and colleagues after he had left the community. 1113:("long-term guest") at the IHÉS, wrote a piece about Grothendieck for a special volume published on the occasion of the IHÉS's fortieth anniversary. In that publication, Cartier notes that as the son of an antimilitary anarchist and one who grew up among the disenfranchised, Grothendieck always had a deep compassion for the poor and the downtrodden. As Cartier puts it, Grothendieck came to find 1419:, claiming that all materials published in his absence had been published without his permission. He asked that none of his work be reproduced in whole or in part and that copies of this work be removed from libraries. He characterized a website devoted to his work as "an abomination". His dictate may have been reversed in 2010. 33: 547:

and worked as a journalist. As teenagers, both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds. At the time of his birth, Grothendieck's mother was married to the journalist Johannes Raddatz and initially, his birth name was recorded as "Alexander Raddatz." That marriage was dissolved in

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while the city was being bombed. In 1966, he had declined to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow, where he was to receive the Fields Medal. He retired from scientific life around 1970 after he had found out that IHÉS was partly funded by the military. He returned to

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He was so completely unknown to this group and to their professors, came from such a deprived and chaotic background, and was, compared to them, so ignorant at the start of his research career, that his fulgurating ascent to sudden stardom is all the more incredible; quite unique in the history of

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Although mathematics became more and more abstract and general throughout the 20th century, it was Alexander Grothendieck who was the greatest master of this trend. His unique skill was to eliminate all unnecessary hypotheses and burrow into an area so deeply that its inner patterns on the most

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was heating up, and Cartier suggests that this also reinforced Grothendieck's distaste at having become a mandarin of the scientific world. In addition, after several years at the IHÉS, Grothendieck seemed to cast about for new intellectual interests. By the late 1960s, he had started to become

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period. The first three volumes (corresponding to Parts 0 to III of the book) were published between 1989 and 1993, while the fourth volume (Part IV) was completed and, although unpublished, copies of it as a typed manuscript are circulated. Grothendieck helped with the translation and wrote a

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with an open letter to the media. He wrote that he and other established mathematicians had no need for additional financial support and criticized what he saw as the declining ethics of the scientific community that was characterized by outright scientific theft that he believed had become

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More than 20,000 pages of Grothendieck's mathematical and other writings are held at the University of Montpellier and remain unpublished. They have been digitized for preservation and are freely available in open access through the Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck portal.

1157:. The group published a bulletin and was dedicated to antimilitary and ecological issues. It also developed strong criticism of the indiscriminate use of science and technology. Grothendieck devoted the next three years to this group and served as the main editor of its bulletin. 766:, but the offer fell through when he refused to sign a pledge promising not to work to overthrow the United States government—a refusal which, he was warned, threatened to land him in prison. The prospect of prison did not worry him, so long as he could have access to books. 647:), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists. Many of the refugee children hidden in Le Chambon attended Collège Cévenol, and it was at this school that Grothendieck apparently first became fascinated with mathematics. 1962:

Grothendieck approached algebraic geometry by clarifying the foundations of the field, and by developing mathematical tools intended to prove a number of notable conjectures. Algebraic geometry has traditionally meant the understanding of geometric objects, such as

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In 1991, Grothendieck moved to a new address that he did not share with his previous contacts in the mathematical community. Very few people visited him afterward. Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of

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and, while still producing relevant mathematical work, he withdrew from the mathematical community and devoted himself to political and religious pursuits (first Buddhism and later, a more Catholic Christian vision). In 1991, he moved to the French village of

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into the mainstream as an organizing principle for mathematics in general. Among its uses, category theory creates a common language for describing similar structures and techniques seen in many different mathematical systems. His notion of

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with Serre. This result was his first work in algebraic geometry. Grothendieck went on to plan and execute a programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which at the time were in a state of flux and under discussion in

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Kleinert, Werner (2007). "Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität. Eine Biographie. Teil 1: Anarchie" [Who is Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchy, mathematics, spirituality. A biography. Part 1: Anarchy.].

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for two years. He then became a professor at the University of Montpellier, where he became increasingly estranged from the mathematical community. He formally retired in 1988, a few years after having accepted a research position at the

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exists. As part of the notes to this manuscript, Grothendieck described the life and the work of 18 "mutants", people whom he admired as visionaries far ahead of their time and heralding a new age. The only mathematician on his list was

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is associated to every open subset of the space. Schemes have become the basic objects of study for practitioners of modern algebraic geometry. Their use as a foundation allowed geometry to absorb technical advances from other fields.

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Grothendieck is noted for his mastery of abstract approaches to mathematics and his perfectionism in matters of formulation and presentation. Relatively little of his work after 1960 was published by the conventional route of the

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Grothendieck wrote that, of these themes, the largest in scope was topoi, as they synthesized algebraic geometry, topology, and arithmetic. The theme that had been most extensively developed was schemes, which were the framework

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located him, then carried on a brief correspondence. Thus they became among "the last members of the mathematical establishment to come into contact with him". After his death, it was revealed that he lived alone in a house in

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in studying linear maps between topological vector spaces. In a few years, he had become a leading authority on this area of functional analysis—to the extent that Dieudonné compares his impact in this field to that of

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By the 1970s, Grothendieck's work was seen as influential, not only in algebraic geometry and the allied fields of sheaf theory and homological algebra, but influenced logic, in the field of categorical logic.

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working groups drafting into foundational work some of the ablest French and other mathematicians of the younger generation). Grothendieck practically ceased publication of papers through the conventional,

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who was claimed to have survived on the Holy Eucharist alone, Grothendieck almost starved himself to death in 1988. His growing preoccupation with spiritual matters was also evident in a letter entitled

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in 2025. A partial English translation can be found on the Internet. A Japanese translation of the whole book in four volumes was completed by Tsuji Yuichi (1938–2002), a friend of Grothendieck from the

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While not publishing mathematical research in conventional ways during the 1980s, he produced several influential manuscripts with limited distribution, with both mathematical and biographical content.

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was intended to be the "ℓ-adic" theory but without the choice of "ℓ", a prime number. It did not provide the intended route to the Weil conjectures, but has been behind modern developments in

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that argued for a connection between the topological characteristics of a variety and its diophantine (number theoretic) properties. For example, the number of solutions of an equation over a

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While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from the IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran more deeply.

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Grothendieck laid a new foundation for algebraic geometry by making intrinsic spaces ("spectra") and associated rings the primary objects of study. To that end, he developed the theory of

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during his time in Nancy; three children, Johanna (1959), Alexander (1961), and Mathieu (1965) with his wife Mireille Dufour; and one child with Justine Skalba, with whom he lived in a

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to their algebraic structure and now bears his name, being called "the Grothendieck–Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem". The tools he developed to prove this theorem started the study of

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abstract level revealed themselves–and then, like a magician, show how the solution of old problems fell out in straightforward ways now that their real nature had been revealed.

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Although Grothendieck continued with mathematical enquiries, his standard mathematical career mostly ended when he left the IHÉS. After leaving the IHÉS, Grothendieck became a

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of complex curves. Although Grothendieck never published his work in this area, the proposal inspired other mathematicians to work in the area by becoming the source of

1598:), allowing a broad generalization of many classical theorems. The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a 4337: 4272: 1697:. Although lauded as "the Einstein of mathematics", his work also provoked adverse reactions, with many mathematicians seeking out more concrete areas and problems. 996:) and providing the new more flexible and general foundations for algebraic geometry that has been adopted in the field since that time. He went on to introduce the 1991: 967: 1665:

has become established as the best universal foundation for this field, because of its expressiveness as well as its technical depth. In that setting one can use

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was finally published in 2022 by Gallimard and, thanks to French science historian Alain Herreman, is also available on the Internet. An English translation by

5785: 5767: 3112: 594:, where his mother contracted the tuberculosis that would eventually cause her death in 1957. While there, Grothendieck managed to attend the local school, at 1954:, "Whole fields of mathematics speak the language that he set up. We live in this big structure that he built. We take it for granted—the architect is gone". 477:(IHÉS) and remained there until 1970, when, driven by personal and political convictions, he left following a dispute over military funding. He received the 5218: 1967:

and surfaces, through the study of the algebraic equations for those objects. Properties of algebraic equations are in turn studied using the techniques of

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sent to 250 friends in January 1990. In it, he described his encounters with a deity and announced that a "New Age" would commence on 14 October 1996.

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His first works on topological vector spaces in 1953 have been successfully applied to physics and computer science, culminating in a relation between

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1929 and Schapiro acknowledged his paternity, but never married Hanka Grothendieck. Grothendieck had a maternal sibling, his half sister Maidi.

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below). Within these, in an informal, diary-like manner, Grothendieck explained and developed his ideas on the relationship between algebraic

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His foundational work on algebraic geometry is at a higher level of abstraction than all prior versions. He adapted the use of non-closed

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Peixoto, Tatiana; Bietenholza, Wolfgang (2016). "To the Memory of Alexander Grothendieck: a Great and Mysterious Genius of Mathematics".

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Grothendieck began his productive and public career as a mathematician in 1949. In 1958, he was appointed a research professor at the

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Alexander Grothendieck's work during what is described as the "Golden Age" period at the IHÉS established several unifying themes in

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and related fields where Grothendieck did his most important and influential work. From approximately 1955 he started to work on

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The Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume I: A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck

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dedicates one chapter to the work and life of Grothendieck, introducing his story by reference to the Japanese mathematician

5684:: This is an account of how 'Pursuing Stacks' was written in response to a correspondence in English with Ronnie Brown and 4276: 3553: 2217:(1955). "Produits Tensoriels Topologiques et Espaces Nucléaires" [Topological Tensor Products and Nuclear Spaces]. 1795:, he identified twelve of his contributions that he believed qualified as "great ideas". In chronological order, they are: 4022: 2716: 1244:. The manuscript, which is being edited for publication by G. Maltsiniotis, later led to another of his monumental works, 859:

route. However, he was able to play a dominant role in mathematics for approximately a decade, gathering a strong school.

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Matériaux pour l'histoire des mathématiques au XXe siècle – Actes du colloque à la mémoire de Jean Dieudonné (Nice 1996)

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and Grothendieck. Grothendieck attracted attention by an intense and highly productive activity of seminars there (

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where at first he did not perform well, failing such classes as astronomy. Working on his own, he rediscovered the

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Les relations entre les mathématiques et la physique théorique – Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the IHÉS

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In May 1939, Grothendieck was put on a train in Hamburg for France. Shortly afterward his father was interned in

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asserts that his mother was of Jewish German descent: "what I know of his life comes from Grothendieck himself".

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theory, opened the way for a proof of the Weil conjectures, ultimately completed in the 1970s by his student

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Grothendieck is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. In an obituary

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of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.

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theories, which use algebraic techniques to study topological objects, has influenced the development of

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Grothendieck was very close to his mother, to whom he dedicated his dissertation. She died in 1957 from

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In January 2010, Grothendieck wrote the letter entitled "Déclaration d'intention de non-publication" to

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have been translated into Spanish, as well as into a Russian translation that was published in Moscow.

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R. P. Langlands, Modular forms and l-adic representations, Lecture Notes in Math. 349. (1973), 361—500

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interested Grothendieck much more than physics, and he organized some seminars on biological topics.

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During this period, Grothendieck also gave his consent to publishing some of his drafts for EGA on

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as non-combatant auxiliaries. However, others state that Schapiro fought in the anarchist militia.

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and he then conjectured the existence a further generalization of it, which is now known as the

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Piotr Pragacz, 'Notes on the Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck,' in Piotr Pragacz (ed.),

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in English), a novel by Puerto Rican–Costa Rican writer Carlos Fonseca is about Grothendieck.

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Grothendieck lived with his parents in Berlin until the end of 1933, when his father moved to

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roots and had been imprisoned in Russia before moving to Germany in 1922, while his mother,

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Alexandre Grothendieck is arguably the most important mathematician of the 20th century...

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The bulk of Grothendieck's published work is collected in the monumental, yet incomplete,

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The Solitary Adventures of a Mathematician: A Journey into Mathematics and Self-Discovery

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In 1990, for risking their lives to rescue Jews, the entire village was recognized as "

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After the war, the young Grothendieck studied mathematics in France, initially at the

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Third part of planned four-volume biography; crowd-financed translation into English.

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writes the other terms "Ariadne's thread" and "philosophy" as effective equivalents.

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at the beginning of 1955, and there he set his old subject aside in order to work in

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Récoltes et Semailles : réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien

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Récoltes et Semailles : réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien

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on a complete variety is finite-dimensional; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the

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First 4 chapters from the incomplete second part of planned four-volume biography.

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preface for it, in which he called Tsuji his "first true collaborator". Parts of

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with photos from Grothendieck's life, given by Winfried Scharlau at IHES in 2009

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Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties: Impanga Lecture Notes,

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The band Stone Hill All Stars have a song named after Alexander Grothendieck.

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in the early 1970s after Grothendieck had largely withdrawn from mathematics.

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Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties: Impanga Lecture Notes

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to complement it. Closely linked to these cohomology theories, he originated

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Marquis, Jean-Pierre (2015). "Category Theory". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.).

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where two leading experts were working on Grothendieck's area of interest,

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In Le Chambon, Grothendieck attended the Collège Cévenol (now known as the

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person for at least the majority of his working life and he traveled on a

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Loving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life

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were formulated in the later 1940s as a set of mathematical problems in

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The results of his work on these and other topics were published in the

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Die Mutanten – Les Mutants – eine Meditation von Alexander Grothendieck

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David Mumford at Brown and Harvard Universities: Archive for Reprints:

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Suugakusha no kodokuna bōken : suugaku to jiko no hakken eno tabi

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is a peripatetic seminar on Grothendieck view not just on mathematics

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is a website devoted to the life and works of Alexandre Grothendieck.

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Mathematics and the Naked King: A Dream and the Burial of Mathematics

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Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck?: Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität

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Sheaves in Geometry and Logic: a First Introduction to Topos Theory

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Once, he managed to escape from the camp, intending to assassinate

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In Nancy, he wrote his dissertation under those two professors on

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Who Is Alexandre Grothendieck: Anarchy, Mathematics, Spirituality

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denotes a kind of "meta-theory" that may be used heuristically;

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2006 pp-xi-xxviii p.xii.

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A Dream and the Burial of Mathematics: The Key to Yin and Yang

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Alexander Grothendieck obituary by David Mumford and John Tate

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 pp.237–249 p.237.

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Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory

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Les «gribouillis» d'Alexandre Grothendieck enfin sauvegardés

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Vite matematiche: Protagonisti del '900, da Hilbert a Wiles,

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Foundations of Grothendieck Duality for Diagrams of Schemes

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theory of schemes, providing the key tools for proving the

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reflects the topological nature of its solutions over the

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The Grothendieck I Knew: Telling, Not Hiding, Not Judging

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Dov M. Gabbay; Akihiro Kanamori; John Woods, Jr. (2012).

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Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

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theory as a generalisation of topology (relevant also in

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proved algebraically; in this context he also introduced

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who became the leading figure in the creation of modern

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Rebellious Genius: In Memory of Alexander Grothendieck

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Sūgaku to hadaka no ōsama: Aru yume to sūgaku no maisō

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In 1970, Grothendieck, with two other mathematicians,

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Produits tensoriels topologiques et espaces nucléaires

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Stéphane Foucart; Philippe Pajot (14 November 2014).

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Comparing Grothendieck during his Nancy years to the

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Les-archives-insaisissables-d-alexandre-grothendieck

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Les-archives-insaisissables-d-alexandre-grothendieck

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Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name

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Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence: Bilingual Edition

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