Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern See more

Grothendieck's early mathematical work was in functional analysis. Between 1949 and 1953 he worked on his doctoral thesis in this subject at Nancy, … See more

Grothendieck is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. In an obituary David Mumford and John Tate wrote:
Although mathematics became more and more abstract and general throughout the 20th century, it was … See more

Colonel Lágrimas (Colonel Tears in English), a novel by Puerto Rican–Costa Rican writer Carlos Fonseca is about Grothendieck.
The band Stone Hill All Stars have a song named after Alexander Grothendieck.
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• Grothendieck, Alexander (1955). "Produits Tensoriels Topologiques et Espaces Nucléaires" [Topological Tensor Products and Nuclear Spaces]. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society Series (in French). 16. Providence: American Mathematical Society. See more

• ∞-groupoid
• λ-ring
• AB5 category
• Abelian category See more

• Grothendieck, Alexander (1986). Récoltes et semailles: réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien (PDF) (in French). Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-288980-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2017.
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