Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
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Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#2This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#3This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
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Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#4This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
This 500KB version is the first result on google scholar searching by title.
https://www.jeanpierrevarlenge.com/app/download/826854410/Wh...
Also I think it should say (2006) not 2008:
> This article is a translation of the article “Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck?”, which originally appeared in German in the Annual Report 2006 of the Mathematics Research Institute in Oberwolfach, Germany
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#5This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
Becuase curl uses system certs as opposed to ones bundled with the browser. Also this is off-topic, read the article, he was an incredible human being.
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#6If you read German or just want more pictures, here are slides and handouts from a talk about Grothendieck
https://jonathanweinberger.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/alexande...
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#7This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
This 500KB version is the first result on google scholar searching by title. https://www.jeanpierrevarlenge.com/app/download/826854410/Wh... Also I think it should say (2006) not 2008: > This article is a translation of the article “Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck?”, which originally appeared in German in the Annual Report 2006 of the Mathematics Research Institute in Oberwolfach, Germany
That's much better, thanks. (I overthought it and tried googling for a short extract from the article, should have done the obvious thing.)
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#8>> Alexander Grothendieck was a mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century.
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#9This PDF weighs 11MB, for no good reason (there are few images in the document but nothing to justify 11MB). The web server is pitifully slow. Curiously, curl tells me the HTTPS cert has expired, but Firefox doesn't. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a decent mirror.
AMS Notices have gone crazy with their file size; not sure why. Are they generating them from PS?
Re: Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (2008) [pdf]
#10I am currently learning modern algebraic geometry (scheme theory) from Ravi Vakil's algebraic geometry in the time of COVID: https://math216.wordpress.com/agittoc-2020/.
It's a great ongoing course that offers amazing intuition into scheme theory. We're divided into "working group(oid)s" where we discuss the mathematics and solve the weekly homework assigned by Ravi. Best of all, anyone [all over the world] can join in on the fun! You get added to a discord and a zulip group, where all the discussion happens.
My favourite article about Grothendieck is the one titled "The Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence": https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/corr.pdf
This article describes both the mathematics, and the lives of Grothendieck and Serre through their exchange of letters. It's powerfully written, and provides great insight into both the mathematics and the two as people. The last line of the article is absolutely beautiful.