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As I was interested in Alexander's philosophical and religious thoughts I came across summaries of it at the "Grothendieck Circle" formed by some academics amon
by fsiefken 12y ago
As I was interested in Alexander's philosophical and religious thoughts I came across summaries of it at the "Grothendieck Circle" formed by some academics among them Pierre Lochack and Leila Schneps. http://www.grothendieckcircle.org/ http://www.grothendieckcircle.org/
"In 1990, he gave away or destroyed all his papers and disappeared into the Pyrenees Mountains. For some years, no mathematicians knew where he was.
Pierre Lochak and Leila Schneps, two French algebraic geometers, heard from a former neighbor of Grothendieck that the “crazy mathematician” had been spotted in a nearby town. They tracked him down and found him living alone, doing organic farming. They maintained contact with him for several years, but now, Schneps says, “he’s not in a state to be visited. It’s not possible to not quarrel with him – or rather, for him not to quarrel with you.”
She hesitates to call him crazy, though she admits that in a technical sense, that might be true. “His mental state is very, very special.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sensitivity-harmony-things https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sensitivity-harmony-thin...
I was reminded of the philosophical work of Buckminster Fuller and Alexander's Flora/Lucifera janus figure reminds me of Carl Jung's Philemon figure. So I wonder why he lists Freud instead of Jung as 'mutant', also Marcel Légaut, Teilhard de Chardin and Rudolf Steiner are on that list.
http://www.ihes.fr/document?id=1723&id_attribute=48 http://www.ihes.fr/document?id=1723&id_attribute=48
http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/DieMutanten.pdf http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/Clefsummary.pdf http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
http://xahlee.info/math/i/Alexander_Grothendieck_cartier.pdf http://xahlee.info/math/i/Alexander_Grothendieck_cartier.pdf