Friday, October 08, 2004
grothendieck
Last week I read about Grothendieck's life & times published in the web by A.M.S. It provides a fresh insight into his life and times esp. when mathematics bloomed in the IHES campus. There is enough material in there to get interested in his original ideas -- on schemes and topos. I hardly can wait to get glimpse of the beauty in those ideas.Anyway its a joy , reading thru those pages.
There is a great deal written about him and yet he seems a very mysterious man. Apart from his ideas on war the doc offers no real insight into his non-mathematical life. His early life esp and how he came to develop a taste for mathematics is not very clear. He is the kind of person who was meant to further the frontiers of mathematics --almost a device meant to churn lemmas and theorems day in and day out.He might have had a rather interesting personal life but mathematics has swept everything aside.
There is a great deal written about him and yet he seems a very mysterious man. Apart from his ideas on war the doc offers no real insight into his non-mathematical life. His early life esp and how he came to develop a taste for mathematics is not very clear. He is the kind of person who was meant to further the frontiers of mathematics --almost a device meant to churn lemmas and theorems day in and day out.He might have had a rather interesting personal life but mathematics has swept everything aside.
