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Did we really just get an English translation now?

• aidenn0 7y ago
  Apparently Grothendiek stated he didn't want any translations as long as he lived. He died 5 years ago.
  • JadeNB 7y ago
    He didn't want his works republished at all; it wasn't an issue of translation.
• butterthebuddha 7y ago
  There's a lot of algebraic geometry literature that's in French, so many algebraic geometers just learn to read math in French (it's considerably easier than reading French literature).
• wbhart 7y ago
  The main problem has not been the language it was written in. It's hard going mathematically as well (for average graduate students at least). A few people have started translation projects, but gave up after realising that by the time they had translated more than a few pages, the French was actually pretty easy to follow. The maths, however, was not so easy. It is really nice to see someone finally translated more than a whole chapter though.
• Koshkin 7y ago
  Math texts in French are easy to understand, as long as you learn a few unfamiliar words, like ‘lorsque,’ par exemple.