Who is Alexander Grothendieck?

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 930-941

  Scharlau, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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References (9)

1. Wilhelm Heydorn, Nur Mensch Sein!: Lebenserrinerungen, /. Groschek and R. Hering, editors, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, Hamburg, 1999.
2. Allyn Jackson, "Comme appelé du néant-As if summoned from the void: The life of Alexandre Grothendieck", Notices, October 2004 and November 2004.
3. See for example Philip P. Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There. This book has been published in several editions by Harper & Row, New York.
4. David Aubin, "A cultural history of catastrophes and chaos: Around the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France, 1958-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 1998.
5. Pierre Cartier, "A mad day's work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich", Bulletin of the AMS (N.S.) 38 (2001), 389-408.
6. In a short note about the spiritual landmarks of his life, Grothendieck mentions for 1957 "calling and unfaithfulness" (footnote of W. S.).
7. Laurent Schwanz, Un Mathématicien aux Prises avec le Siècle, Odile Jacob, Parts, 1997; English translation, A Mathematician Grappling with His Century, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2001.
8. The following conference proceedings concern the circle of ideas around LM and EP, in particular the letter to Fallings and the text of EP: The Grothendieck Theory of Dessins d'Enfants, Leila Schneps, editor, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 200 (1994); Geometric Galois Actions 1 and 2, Leila Schneps and Pierre Lochak, editors, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 242 and 243 (1997).
9. This is apparent from, for example, marginal notes in Grothendieck'scopyof Freud, Die Traumdeutung, Fischer Studienausgabe, Band II