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Biographies Alexander Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck (Berlin, March 28, 1928) is one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century.
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He is also one of its most extreme scientific personalities, with achievements over a short span of years that are still scarcely credible in their broad scope and sheer bulk, and an approach that antagonised even close followers.
He made major contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and co-awarded the Crafoord Prize with Pierre Deligne in 1988. He declined the latter prize, on ethical grounds.
He is noted for his mastery of abstract approaches to mathematics, and his perfectionism in matters of formulation and presentation.
Relatively little of his work after 1960 was published by the conventional route of the learned journal, circulating initially in duplicated volumes of seminar notes; his influence was to a considerable extent personal, on French ma