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Anyone know of a published version of Grothendieck's Reapings and Sowings? Mentioned a lot in pages about him, book references currently eluding my Google-fu.

• mccoy 12y ago
  You may not have much luck... Grothendieck was notoriously private. IIRC, he officially withdrew every peer-reviewed mathematical manuscript during the late 80s. There are mimeographed copies floating through the halls of math departments in France, but I've never actually seen much of his work.
  • leoc 12y ago
    There's surely going to be a scramble over his estate.
  • djulius 12y ago
    Exactly, a lot of his work from the 80s ended up in a cupboard from the math department of Montpellier and was almost sent to trash during relocation to new buildings.
• ninguem2 12y ago
  Here it is, in French, I don't think an English translation of the whole thing exists: http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/RetS.pdf http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
  • keithpeter 12y ago
    Thanks, I'll keep looking for some of it in English as my French is basic-to-nonexistant.
    • doe88 12y ago
      Moreover I find his writing style (having just read few paragraphs of this book) very advanced even although I'm French.
• robinhouston 12y ago
  Some of it is here: http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/intro1.html http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/intro1.html Edit: Sorry, I thought for some reason that you were looking for an English version. It hasn't been published, that I know of.