Maybe Grothendieck, like Avicenna's conception of God, only knew particulars "in as much as they are universal". Grothendieck once flunked an exam due to—in hi

Maybe Grothendieck, like Avicenna's conception of God, only knew particulars "in as much as they are universal". Grothendieck once flunked an exam due to—in his own words— "une erreur idiote de calcul numérique".