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One of the greatest ever? 2017-07-27 01:11:30 Post No. 9065984
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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Alexander_Grothendieck
"He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century."
Any citations on this? I'm a mathematician and never heard of him, until recently. Looks like the article is written from category theorists' POV, who assume their theory is the most important thing in mathematics, when it clearly isn't. It is pure POV. His list of achievements doesn't look all that significant, if you consider that most of them are in some obscure part of mathematics. Half of his "major archievements" don't even have a Wikipedia article. The more I look at it, the more it looks like some sort of fraud, or an instance of extreme fanboyism.
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He is a major figure in category theory and category theorists are major evangelists. They're too vocal and the have a heightened sense of self importance about their field, it can get really obnoxious.
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>>9065984
He is responsible for modern algebraic geometry.
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>>9065984
>search wiki
>a jew
evry fkn time, how gentiles can even compete?
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and who would you exactly put as the greatest mathematician of 20th century then?
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>>9066080
He may be Jewish, but he lacks that [math]\mathcal{PHENOTYPE}[/math].
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why do you make this thread every day
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>>9066085
Who else?
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modern mathematics was born from Grothendieck
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>>9066096
no, that was bourbaki
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>>9065984
>I'm a mathematician and never heard of him, until recently.
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>>9066168
Grothendieck was a member of Bourbaki. The more you know.
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>>9066384
>Bourbaki was a member of Grothendieck
That's more like it.
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>>9066088
Are you so sure?
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>>9066471
I'm Jewish on my maternal side, does that make me a Jew?
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Is bringing algebraic geometry to a whole new level insignificant for you?
OP, are you an analyst? It can be the case an analyst can't appreciate Grothendieck
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>>9066383
analysts exist anon.
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>>9066473
yup
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>>9066471
genetically he was
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