http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Grothendieck Posts tagged with 'Grothendieck' at MetaFilter. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:49:34 -0800 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:49:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74197/Who%2Dis%2DAlexander%2DGrothendieck <a href="http://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf">Who is Alexander Grothendieck?</a> [PDF] <i>This lecture is concerned not with Grothendieck's mathematics but with his very unusual life on the fringes of human society. In particular, there is, on the one hand, the question of why at the age of forty-two Grothendieck first of all resigned his professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES); then withdrew from mathematics completely; and finally broke off all connections to his colleagues, students, acquaintances, friends, as well as his own family, to live as a hermit in an unknown place. On the other hand, one would like to know what has occupied this restless and creative spirit since his withdrawal from mathematics.</i> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74197 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:49:34 -0800 biography eccentric genius Grothendieck math recluse Wolfdog