A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing… — 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
