Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck (Berlin, 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014, Saint-Girons, Ariège) was a leading figure in the modern field of algebraic geometry and Galois theory.[6][7][8][9]

Alexander Grothendieck
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Alexander Grothendieck in Montreal, 1970
Born(1928-03-28)28 March 1928
Died13 November 2014(2014-11-13) (aged 86)
Saint-Lizier, France
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Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
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ThesisProduits tensoriels topologiques et espaces nucleaires (1953)
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In 1970 Grothendieck left the Institut des hautes études scientifiques, where he had been appointed research professor (1958–1970) and where he did his greatest work. He turned to radical pacifism and opposed all forms of warfare and aggression. This is why he declined the Crafoord Prize in 1988.[10][11]

In 1966 he was awarded the Fields Medal.[12]

Alexander Grothendieck Media

References

  1. Cartier 2004, p. 10, footnote 12.
  2. Kleinert 2007.
  3. Douroux 2012.
  4. Scharlau 2008.
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  7. Piotr Pragacz, Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties: Impanga Lecture Notes (Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005), p. xvii
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  12. Sooyoung Chang, Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians (Hackensack, NJ; Singapore: World Scientific, 2011), p. 115