15 Nov
2014
15 Nov
'14
3:15 p.m.
Fascinating --- the paradisical picture of unification of apparently disparate areas of mathematics this tantalising review painted kept me from my dinner for an hour! It even offered a glimmer of hope that one day I might understand the purpose of category theory ... WFL On 11/15/14, Axel Vogt <mail@axelvogt.de> wrote:
Here are readable sources concerning biography and work:
Pierre Cartier 2001, "A mad day's work: from Grothendieck to ..." http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2001-38-04/S0273-0979-01-00913-2/home.html
and W. Scharlau (mainly his family and biography, in German)
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