Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928, Berlin) was one of the most important mathematicians active in the 20th century. He was also one of its most extreme scientific personalities, with achievements over a short span of years that are still scarcely credible in their broad scope and sheer bulk, and an approach that antagonised even close followers. He made major contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and co-awarded the Crafoord Prize with Pierre Deligne in 1988. He declined the latter prize, on ethical grounds.

External links

• MacTutor biography
• Grothendieck Circle, collection of mathematical and biographical information, photos, links to his writings
• Grothendieck Circle discussion Forum
• Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
• Récoltes et Semailles (original text)
• La Vision
• Grothendieck biography project by Roy Lisker. English translation of some parts of Récoltes et Semailles can be found here.
• Grothendieck biography (Part 1, Part 2) published in AMS Notices
• The origins of `Pursuing Stacks' This is an account of how `Pursuing Stacks' was written in response to a correspondence in English with Ronnie Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor, which continued until 1991.