{"id":78,"date":"2004-09-14T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2004-09-14T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T19:45:04","slug":"grothendieck-biographical-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Grothendieck Biographical Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/200409\/200409-toc.html\">latest issue<\/A> of the Notices of the AMS contains the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/200409\/fea-grothendieck-part1.pdf\">first part<\/A> of a long biographical article about Grothendieck written by Allyn Jackson.  Evidently <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.uni-muenster.de\/math\/u\/scharlau\/scharlau\/\">Winfried Scharlau<\/A> is writing a biography of Grothendieck, and Jackson&#8217;s article is partially based on materials he has gathered.  Much of this material is brought together at a website maintained by the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.grothendieck-circle.org\/\">&#8220;Grothendieck Circle&#8221;<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>This issue of the Notices also contains a short <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/200409\/what-is-illusie.pdf\">expository piece<\/A> on one of the most abstract ideas due to Grothendieck, that of a &#8220;topos&#8221;. Illusie was a student of Grothendieck&#8217;s, and Jackson&#8217;s article has some of his reminiscences about what that experience was like.  Illusie&#8217;s piece is not very accessible; a better place to try and get some feeling for these ideas is Pierre Cartier&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/bull\/2001-38-04\/S0273-0979-01-00913-2\/S0273-0979-01-00913-2.pdf\">Bulletin article<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the Notices of the AMS contains the first part of a long biographical article about Grothendieck written by Allyn Jackson. Evidently Winfried Scharlau is writing a biography of Grothendieck, and Jackson&#8217;s article is partially based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=78\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}