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Why does no one know about him outside of academic mathematicians? I never hear anything about him even though he is probably the greatest mathematician of the 20th century. You can hear about Hilbert, Gödel, Turing, Erdös, Ramanujan, Hardy but Grothendieck gets almost no recognition in our wider culture despite his turbulent life witch you would think would make him a more popular figure.

>> No.8847679

>>8847673
Popsci can't into algebraic geometry

>> No.8847694

No one's written a popular biography about him yet; it'll happen soon enough, and then we'll get a biopic like with Turing and Ramanujan.

>> No.8847695

http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html

The movie practicall writes itself!!

>> No.8847794

Frenchfag here,

we hear about him a lot. I even remember my high school textbook having a quote from him on one page.

It's just a question of nationality I guess.

>> No.8847987
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8847987

If you want people to know about Grothendieck you have to meme him out of obscurity.

Keep talking about how he looks like a wizard.

>> No.8848042

Godel became famous because people assumed his work had philosophical implications, and Turing became famous because of obvious applications of his work. Erdos is known for being very prolific, and Ramanujan is known for being a prodigy. I don't think Hardy and Hilbert are quite as popularly known as those others, but if they are, in Hardy's case it's because of his relationship to Ramanujan, and in Hilbert's case it's because of his work in foundations. The issue with Grothendieck is that he's substantially more recent than them, and perhaps because his work is more abstract and difficult. Also you forgot about von Neumann

>> No.8848045

>>8848042
Actually I guess Hilbert's Hotel makes him about as famous as hte others

>> No.8848054

>>8847673
People don't really know about Turing other than what the movie displayed. People usually associate Turing due to his crypto work, when he was known for much more. I think in on of his recommendation letters he was stayed for his work in almost periodic functions, or something along those lines, despite (by then iirc) having done ground breaking work in computability.

>> No.8848112

>You can hear about Hilbert, Gödel, Turing, Erdös, Ramanujan, Hardy
no, not really

Turing maybe, because being gay is very cool now

>> No.8848126

>>8848112
Milo Yiannopoulos ruined being gay

>> No.8848306

>>8847673
its bcuz his name looks like 'gross dick'

>> No.8848321

>>8848042
>Godel became famous because people assumed his work had philosophical implications
kek

>> No.8848331

>>8847673
>You can hear about Hilbert, Gödel, Turing, Erdös, Ramanujan, Hardy
The only ones of these anybody learns about outside of specialized math material are Turing (because people like computers) and Ramemejan

>> No.8848367

>>8848126
Now I'll have to become a tranny to get future liberals to love my mathematical work :(

>> No.8848778

>>8848042
Hardy also because of "A Mathematician's Apology"

>> No.8848857

I could quite easily see a dramatized biopic of his life like that Ramanujan movie

>> No.8848866

Someone wrote a play about him here:
https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/heathcote.pdf

>> No.8849654

>>8847695
>http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html

that was a great read thanks

>> No.8850781

>i made strides in algebrai-

YEAH ID LIKE SOME ONION RINGS OPTIMIZED TO A TAURUS

>> No.8850789

>>8848778
>"A Mathematician's Apology"
that was a great read thanks