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Alexander Grothendieck: Enthusiasm and Creativity

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C’est à celui en toi qui sait être seul, à l’enfant, que je voudrai parler et à personne d’autre.

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  • All biographical information, bibliographies and more are available at the URL http://www.grothendieckcircle.org. A complete bibliography of Grothendieck’s writings can also be found in the first volume of the Grothendieck Festschrift published by Birkhäuser in 1990. Here we note only a few essential sources used in this present work:

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Viale, L.B. (2011). Alexander Grothendieck: Enthusiasm and Creativity. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_25

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