Alexander Grothendieck
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Alexander Grothendieck
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Re: Alexander Grothendieck
#2Suppose he were both. Then do we need to distinguish between them? If so, would it be possible to make that distinction? If not, can we afford to need to make it? This applies to all incomprehensibly gifted persons.
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#3I shall choose to remember him in his prime.
Re: Alexander Grothendieck
#4Suppose he were both. Then do we need to distinguish between them? If so, would it be possible to make that distinction? If not, can we afford to need to make it? This applies to all incomprehensibly gifted persons.
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#5I shall choose to remember him in his prime.
57
Re: Alexander Grothendieck
#6Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.
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#7Re: Alexander Grothendieck
#8Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.
Right? It's baffling.
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#9‘ And there is growing academic and corporate attention to how Grothendieckian concepts could be practically applied for technological ends. Chinese telecoms giant Huawei believes his esoteric concept of the topos could be key to building the next generation of AI, and has hired Fields medal-winner Laurent Lafforgue to explore this subject. But Grothendieck’s motivations were not worldly ones, as his former colleague Pierre Cartier understood. “Even in his mathematical milieu, he wasn’t quite a member of the family,” writes Cartier. “He pursued a kind of monologue, or rather a dialogue with mathematics and God, which to him were one and the same.”
Never heard of him before, RIP but this reads like the beginning of neal stephenson novel… interesting
Re: Alexander Grothendieck
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
57
sorry, that's not a prime because 3*19
It's a joke.
"Although fifty-seven is not prime, it is jokingly known as the Grothendieck prime after a legend according to which the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck supposedly gave it as an example of a particular prime number." [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)#In_mathematics