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In what follows, I dwell on some major influences on my mathematical education. The account Luc Illusie gives of my work is much more systematic. I would like to begin by thanking him for it.
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For a nice description of what is involved here, I refer to the recent article by A. Bauer: Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics, Bull. AMS 54 3 (2017) 481–498.
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Translation: When certain causes produce certain effects, the elements of symmetry of these causes must be found in the produced effects.
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De seriebus divergentibus, Opera Omnia I 14 585–617.
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Deligne, P. (2019). Mathematical Autobiography. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2013-2017. The Abel Prize. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99028-6_1
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