It isn't, and this is the vocal anti-anarchist contingent voicing their POV as fact when in reality he had stepped down from IHES after he realized his work was

It isn't, and this is the vocal anti-anarchist contingent voicing their POV as fact when in reality he had stepped down from IHES after he realized his work was being funded by the French Military [1] in some Academic-Military collusion and couldn't continue any longer--not unlike DARPA has with MIT in modern times. He had a greater regard and estimation in his colleagues and Academia as a whole that turned out to be false as none followed him in protest and he then dedicated his Life to Environmentalism. He even shunned his Field's medal and rejected all the awards that followed. He, like many other Anarchists, felt that the State's continual and expansionist military activity needlessly contributes to the haphazard and headlong demise of the World's Ecology--which threatens all of Life on Earth--and wrote at great length about it. And sees the State as an imminent threat to Humanity as it accelerates our demise as a Species. I learned about Grothendieck's amazing Life and his work upon his death in 2014 (a month or 2 after Hal Finney died) in a very defining period of my Life, not just as an anarchist myself but as a Human and this article's final paragraph summed up what I think he wanted to be remembered the most as it was a Life well lived.: The man who had advanced mathematics in the most profound ways did not believe that math was the answer to everything. He taught us that life is more valuable than any equation. 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/science/the-lives-of-alexander-grothendieck-a-mathematical-visionary.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/science/the-lives-of-alex...