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G for Grothendieck

The mathematical intelligence, the approach to the world, the behaviour of a genius who broke every rule

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A personal recollection of the turbulent life and the main mathematical achievements of the great French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck.

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    Pierre Cartier

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This paper is an adaptation of the introduction to the essay “Alexander Grothendieck. Un pays dont on ne connaîtrait que le nom” [1], published on the website http://inference-review.com. It originally appeared in French in the No. 162 of January–February 2015 of the magazine Tangente, and then, in an Italian translation, in Lettera Matematica PRISTEM (No. 96—March 2016).

We thank the author, the editor of the magazine Gilles Cohen and the Éditions Pole for the permission to reproduce text and images.

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Cartier, P. G for Grothendieck. Lett Mat Int 5, 113–118 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-017-0170-8

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