Hello, Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography? For me many times it is helpful to read a bio to the historical development of a person's work. Thanks in advance, Bill Halchin
Don't know of any "standard biography", though you could check out some links on-line (the Triples home page lists the following: http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/recoltes1.html http://www.grothendieck-circle.org/ http://modular.fas.harvard.edu/sga/ http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~maltsin/groth/Derivateurs.html (though the last two are reprints of papers etc)). In addition, a French publication "Bourbaki" (pub by Pour La Science - the French edition of Scientific American) mentions him as part of that group - and has a rather nice photo of him and his child. Good luck! -= rags =- On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Galchin Vasili wrote:
Hello,
Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography? For me many times it is helpful to read a bio to the historical development of a person's work.
Thanks in advance, Bill Halchin
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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
I do not think that anyone has written a biography of AG, but he has written an autobiography, called Recoltes et semailles (Reapings and Sowings--the order is intentionally backwards). It is not publicly available (not published) but someone has, I understand, done a Russian translation that is. There is also a (very) partial English translation that is an ongoing project that requires money to proceed. Thus if you want to read it, you have to send cash to the translator, Roy Lisker. See his web page, http://www.fermentmagazine.org/, for more details. I cannot vouch for the quality of the translation, but I disagree with him on how to translate the title. I think he called it Harvests and Sowings, which clanks on my ear. He says his French is better than mine, which I won't argue, but my wife agrees with me and she is a professional French to English translator. Besides we are not arguing over the meaning, but the best sounding English. Be that as it may, it is the best you can do unless you can read it in Russian (which I assume from your name you can). Sorry, I don't know a source for that. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Galchin Vasili wrote:
Hello,
Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography? For me many times it is helpful to read a bio to the historical development of a person's work.
Thanks in advance, Bill Halchin
Galchin Vasili writes:
Hello,
Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography? For me many times it is helpful to read a bio to the historical development of a person's work.
Thanks in advance, Bill Halchin
I'm pretty sure there is no book length biography, but there is some information at: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/biographic.php which is really the information from www.grothendieck-circle.org which appears to be off-line at the moment. -- Bob -- Robert L. Knighten Robert@Knighten.org
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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