People may like to look at the Spectator article: http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec262.html I thought Recollte et Semaille translated as `Reaping and sowing'? He was a great correspondent in the 1980s, and we have a mass of letters which will be transferred to an archive in good hands in due course (my administrative matters have got too much at present). This correspondence is relevant to Pursuing Stacks, which was written in English as a response to our correspondence in English, which he describes in `Esquisse d'un programme' (EdP) as `a baton rompu' (ranging over this and that). In fact EdP is available in French and English translation in books by Pierre Lochack and Leila Schneps (LMS Lecture notes series). Pursuing Stacks was to have been volume 1 of a series on `The long march towards Galois theory', written in a new informal style, as in Pursuing Stacks, where the thought is open to view. I suspect that writing R&S distracted him from this aim. I expect to explain the correspondence which led to Pursuing Stacks being sent to me, and Larry Breen, and then circulated from Bangor, in 1983, but have not yet got round to it. In any case, Pursuing Stacks seems to be increasingly influential, as does EdP. Ronnie Brown Robin Houston wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:59AM -0700, Galchin Vasili wrote:
Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography?
This question came up recently on sci.math.research, where there were several interesting responses. The thread is at
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=0t3t3bw3rrcd%40legacy
Robin
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