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tfw he was actually right about literally everything

Dude Yoga LMAO

>>11833473
Riemann-Roch

So I just found out thst Grothendieck wrote a 930-page autobiography where he also wrote several philosophical thoughts. It was written in a very poetic french and there's a russian and a japanese translation, but no english translation yet. So if some of you guys can read in french, japanese or russian you might be interested. Did someone here read it? What did you think of it?

For those who are interested just search for Récoltes et Semailles on libgen.

what if grothendieck was born in the 80's and got into string theory?

>>11051748
>stumbling over herself to defend sucking off abstract nonsense to """"generalize"""" trivial topological invariants such as homology
you are the thing you hate

>>10804985
there isn't actually any rivalry, i just shout into the void and the algebraic geometers entertain me by calling me a moron

>>10715270
>>10715302

>>10654325
why not hartshorne?

Étale shiteitte ne.

>>10313197
algebra is shit because it's not real math, it's just children playing with building blocks.
"wook mummy! a commudadive wing! pwime ideals, mummy!"
algebraic geometry at least applies algebra to something respectable, but it is by no means overrated. it's the current popular field for undergrads to go "im gonna be an algebraic geometer when i grow up!" and it will be oversaturated in 5 or 6 years. it's not a bad meme, but it's a meme.
it's also a meme because of this guy. i mean god damn. how can something that started so concrete become so fucking abstract.

Is he a greatest mathematician ever? Is there someone who can explain his achievement briefly?

>>9913108
How do you have no publications and a PhD?

tfw you'll never get to meet grothendieck and waste the whole night doing algebraic geometry having deep discussions with him :(