Can I get a quick rundown on this guy?

he became a wizard

>>8775757
Of course.

>Woman in the back is his wife
>Girl in the back is his wife's daughter
>Man to the left is the bull
>Man to the right is the new age priest that is going to proclaim them husband, wife and bull under god.

>>8775757

Lowdown:
>Teachers thought he was a retard because he kept asking questions about volume
>Teachers told young Alex his questions were dumb because all his questions were well-known and solved problems in calculus
>Alex thought his teachers were dumb for thinking his questions were retarded
>Alex got marked off for not having proofs that matched the book's proofs
>Alex got really fed up with textbook problems, they weren't his problems.
>Alex failed a math exam because he is bad at arithmetic
>Teachers didn't think he was gifted in math because he failed math exams and asked dumb questions

FAST FOWARD

>He is known as one of the brightest and most gifted mathematicians to have ever existed

t. sauce read a lot of his personal journal.

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>>8775757

>>8775757
>The same year he [Grothendeick] was invited to visit Harvard by Oscar Zariski, but the offer fell through when he refused to sign a pledge promising not to work to overthrow the United States government, a position that, he was warned, might have landed him in prison.
whoah...

>>8775979
And now I'm sure his work, at least indirectly, helps the US gov't kill people.

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>>8775808
He also supposedly didn't like reading books by other mathematicians. He preferred to learn through conversation.

>>8776142
brainlet

>>8775808
he thought 57 was prime
such a brainlet...

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breh