Also, a two-part article about his life & work is at: http://www.ams.org/notices/200409/fea-grothendieck-part1.pdf and http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf --Dan On 2012-08-12, at 4:12 AM, Simon Plouffe wrote: << Hello, there is one big news here circulating in France about Alexandre Grothendieck, they have found 5 boxes, 20000 pages of documents from him, written pages about Algebraic Geometry, Alexandre Grothendieck is retired (sort of) in west-south france in the Pyrenées, for about 20 years, he won fields medal in the 60's and then retired completely in 68-69, refusing honnors and money, There is a very good account of the life and mathematics of him here : http://www.liberation.fr/sciences/2012/07/01/le-tresor-oublie-du-genie-des-m... but this article is in french, I hope that google translate will do a decent job for those speaking english only,, Bonne lecture, Simon Plouffe

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