Even more than you thought! WFL ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Axel Vogt <mail@axelvogt.de> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:24:34 +0100 Subject: Re: [math-fun] Alexander Grothendieck To: Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> I was a bit too hasty http://www.scharlau-online.de/ag_1.html The AMS notices are in English at least, http://www.ihes.fr/document?id=1723&id_attribute=48 Best regards, Axel On 15.11.2014 23:14, Fred Lunnon wrote:

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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