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found this kind of Grothendieck bio, nice read:

http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/cartier.pdf

>>6162842
Any particular correspondence, or just in general? (I've read one or two published letters between them.)

>>5573847
Agreed.

I guess he was doomed from the start

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha_Schapiro

If Grothendieck died, would anyone know?
He's getting old...

ITT: Favorite mathematicians and why.

Mine:

Galois: Died early, great potential, made major discoveries that are extremely deep and influential even today.

Grothendieck / Noether: The central figures behind linear abstract algebra and topology.

Von Neumann: Was one of the most intelligent people to ever live, having unrivaled mental ability. Father of computers and theoretical computer science with Turing, wrote the first papers on quantum mechanics, had Ph.D in math without going to lectures. Generally likeable and sociable, was married.

Ramanujan: Autodidact with great potential and fidelity, very 'grassroots'.

Newton and Gauss, Euler too for greats.

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>Nationality: None (Stateless)

What the hell?

itt: trolls

>>4267583

Thanks

>>4141753
>mon visage quand

Grothendieck once talked about two approaches to problem solving using the analogy of opening a nut.

The first approach was to use a hammer and a chisel, cracking it open with brute force.

Here is how he described his approach:

"I can illustrate the second approach with the same image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months—when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado! A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet it finally surrounds the resistant substance."

Grothendieck is my hero.

Who is your favorite mathematician and why?

I mispronounced this guy's name for like 3 years before someone corrected me. Gah.

Go!

Dear /sci/,

I hope you are all aware of the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. I am also a math student (though not as gifted as him) and would like to know: would I achieve anything with enough toil and effort? I would like to know if there are mathanons or physanons here who know how Grothendieck does it? How is he able to work alone in his solitude motivating himself for that long?

Bibliography.
The capacity to be alone, blogpost
>>http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/the-capacity-to-be-alone

The capacity to be alone, original paper,
>>http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=ijp.039.0416a

OP will appreciate it if anybody could bring him a copy of the original paper.

Thanks, /sci/.

>>999972
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