Alexandre Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014), his first name often written as Alexandre, the form he adopted when living in France, was a German-born French mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry.

External links

• O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., “Alexander Grothendieck”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grothendieck.html .
• Alexandre Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles.
• http://www.grothendieckcircle.org/