Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, Alexander Grothendieck, many of which the...
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Grothendieck's personal life suffered from his obsessive work ethic and increasing instability of mind. His marriage to Mireille Dufour, with...
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Grothendieck left the IHÉS in 1970 for reasons not entirely clear to anyone. He turned from maths to the problems of environmental protection,...
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Mr. Grothendieck (pronounced GROHT-en-deek) emerged from a life of exile during World War II to become one of the most important mathematical...
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Grothendieck's genius was to recognize that there is a “being” hiding behind a given algebraic equation (or a system of equations) called a...
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Grothendieck died Thursday at a hospital in the southwestern town of Saint-Girons, hospital officials said, without specifying the cause of...
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The pinnacle of his investigations was the concept of motive: a ray of light capable of illuminating every conceivable incarnation of a...
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A refugee during World War II, he rose from humble beginnings to become a dominant force in mathematics. His outspoken pacificism and...
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The New Yorker: Colin McLarty, the Truman P. Handy Professor and Chair of Philosophy, weighed in for a story on Alexander Grothendieck, an...
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Alexander Grothendieck, Brilliant Jewish Mathematician, Dies at 86 ... Math Whiz: Alexander Grothendieck helped to create the field of algebraic...
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