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Alexander Grothendieck’s Mathematical Archives at University of Montpellier
- fermigier 9y ago18000 pages of mostly manuscript notes were released today by the University of Montpellier, following an agreement with Grothendieck's heirs. These notes where initially given by Grothendieck to Malgoire, , as narrated in http://www.neverendingbooks.org/grothendiecks-gribouillis http://www.neverendingbooks.org/grothendiecks-gribouillis > In 1991, just before he moved to the Pyrenees he burned almost all of his personal notes in the garden. He phoned Jean Malgoire: > “Si tu ne viens pas chercher mon bordel mathématique, il va brûler avec le reste.” > Malgoire sped to Mormoiron and rescued 5 boxes containing about 20.000 pages. The next 20 years he kept them in his office, not exactly knowing what to do with them.