A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size",… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“It is in this gesture of "going beyond," to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself. — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
