Homage to Alexander Grothendieck

87 pointsposted 2 days ago
by jjgreen
(igrothendieck.org)

10 Comments

uptownfunk

2 days ago

He is one of those for whom I wish I had enough time to understand his ideas.

enriquto

2 days ago

You do not need to understand all his ideas, just one or two to begin with.

ykonstant

2 days ago

I would suggest the relative viewpoint to geometry as one: is a beautiful concept and not too hard to understand at a rudimentary level. It also provided the springboard for Grothendieck's developments of topoi.

youoy

2 days ago

I share the translated quote that they have chosen for the frontpage, for people that just read the comments:

> There are no “final words”, no “conclusions” in Récoltes et Semailles, any more than there are in my life, or in yours. There is a wine, aged for a lifetime in the barrels of my being. The last drink you drink will not be better than the first or the hundredth. They are all “the same”, and they are all different.

ddrdrck_

2 days ago

Seems like empty words to me ... Thankfully Grothendieck mathematical works are more conclusive and more groundbreaking than his thoughts on personal development !

youoy

2 days ago

Fair point. I mean, if you compare any philosophical statement against a mathematical one, the philosophical one is always going to be almost empty in comparison :)

dostick

2 days ago

“… for 10th anniversary of his death”, must have number dividable by 10 even if it means celebrating person’s death!

user

2 days ago

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