Homage to Alexander Grothendieck

87 pointsposted a year ago
by jjgreen
(igrothendieck.org)

10 Comments

uptownfunk

a year ago

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

enriquto

a year ago

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

ykonstant

a year 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

a year 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_

a year ago

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

youoy

a year 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

a year ago

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

user

a year ago

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