R.I.P. Alexander Grothendiek

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25 Nov 2014, 8:10 pm

Alexander Grothendiek on of the greatest mathematicians of of the 20 th century died at the age of 86.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck for a review of has career and contributions.

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26 Nov 2014, 2:20 pm

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of this forum. I had heard about it on an earlier occasion.

Unfortunately, I'm by far not sufficiently knowledgeable to appreciate his later work in algebraic geometry. I know him mostly in relation to the approximation problem in Banach space theory, that was ultimately settled in the negative by Per Enflo. This is closer to my own expertise and interests.

Are you familiar with his work in algebraic geometry?

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06 Dec 2014, 4:08 am

SweetTooth wrote:

I'll suppose his silence means 'no'. :roll:

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06 Dec 2014, 12:36 pm

SweetTooth wrote:

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of this forum. I had heard about it on an earlier occasion.

Unfortunately, I'm by far not sufficiently knowledgeable to appreciate his later work in algebraic geometry. I know him mostly in relation to the approximation problem in Banach space theory, that was uimately settled in the negative by Per Enflo. This is closer to my own expertise and interests.

Are you familiar with his work in algebraic geometry?

If have read some of the work on varieties ahd Schemas. They are a bit heavy for me. Besides I am more interested in other mathematical subjects.

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