Alexander Grothendieck: Enthusiasm and Creativity

  • Luca Barbieri Viale
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Abstract

C’est à celui en toi qui sait être seul, à l’enfant, que je voudrai parler et à personne d’autre.

Keywords

Algebraic Geometry Algebraic Variety Structure Sheaf Cohomology Theory Algebraic Cycle 
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Bibliography

  1. All biographical information, bibliographies and more are available at the URL http://www.grothendieckcircle.org. A complete bibliography of Grothendieck’s writings can also be found in the first volume of the Grothendieck Festschrift published by Birkhäuser in 1990. Here we note only a few essential sources used in this present work:
  2. P. Cartier, “A mad day’s work: from Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich, the evolution of the concepts of space and symmetry”, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 38, no. 4 (2001), pp. 389–408.MATHCrossRefMathSciNetGoogle Scholar
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Luca Barbieri Viale
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  1. 1.Dipto. MatematicaUniversità di GenovaGenovaItaly

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