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David Mumford did a great job summarizing his contributions: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html http://www.dam.brown.edu/peopl
by cafebeen 12y ago
David Mumford did a great job summarizing his contributions:
http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendie...
On a side note, this was an obituary invited by Nature that was surprisingly rejected for being too technical!
- ddumas 12y agoThe obituary was too technical for Nature.
- clebio 12y agoThanks for that link. The discussion and comments at the end are fascinating. Sad that STEM is getting dumbed down along with general education. I've been self-learning analysis and differential geometry for a while now, and feel that the way math is taught at the secondary and post-seconardy level -- and just the way the framing of the subject -- does actual damage to our chances of learning it. What I mean is, a lot of so-called higher-level or advanced math is concerned with unifying generalities. Starting with the most limited, simplest instance of sets -- integers -- makes each iteration into more general terrain seem 'difficult'. Whereas, if math education started with the abstract generality (topologies and abstract algebra), any particular constriction to a domain (complex, reals, functions, etc.) wouldn't seem isolated or unique. Anyway, thanks for the reference!