In case you hadnt heard: Alexander Grothendieck, who has died aged - TopicsExpress



          

In case you hadnt heard: Alexander Grothendieck, who has died aged 86, was considered the greatest pure mathematician of the second half of the 20th century, his name uttered with the same reverence among mathematicians as that of Einstein among physicists. Yet in the 1970s he effectively abandoned his brilliant academic career and, in 1991, disappeared altogether; he was later reported as last heard of raging about the devil somewhere in the Pyrenees”.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 01:42:26 +0000

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