Alexander Grothendieck, one of the greatest mathematical minds of the twentieth century, died last Thursday (November 13). A recipient of the most prestigious honour in mathematics, the Fields medal, ...
What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more quickly than physics does.
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