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Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait (English and French Edition)
Leila Schneps (Ed.)
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Description for Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait (English and French Edition)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Schneps, Leila. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 187 x 23. Weight in Grams: 834.
Mathematics students and researchers often react to Alexandre Grothendieck's legendary fame in the world of mathematics by asking just what the man did to earn him so brilliant a reputation. But as legitimate as it is, the question is difficult to answer, because of the particularly abstruse nature of his mathematics and the wealth of notions he introduced, some of which have become so natural and so familiar to mathematicians that it is easy to forget that there was ever an actual individual who first brought them out into the light, whereas others are so abstract that even experts may ... Read more
Mathematics students and researchers often react to Alexandre Grothendieck's legendary fame in the world of mathematics by asking just what the man did to earn him so brilliant a reputation. But as legitimate as it is, the question is difficult to answer, because of the particularly abstruse nature of his mathematics and the wealth of notions he introduced, some of which have become so natural and so familiar to mathematicians that it is easy to forget that there was ever an actual individual who first brought them out into the light, whereas others are so abstract that even experts may ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
International Press of Boston
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
841g
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Somerville, United States
ISBN
9781571462824
SKU
V9781571462824
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About Leila Schneps (Ed.)
Leila Schneps studied mathematics at Harvard University, USA, and then went on to do her doctoral thesis at the University of Paris, France, where she is now a researcher. She encountered Grothendieck's unpublished writings in 1991, and her mathematical work for over two decades has been devoted to furthering some of the ideas sketched in them, and relating them to ... Read more
Reviews for Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait (English and French Edition)
... a fascinating (if technical) collection of essays about the man who wholly remade mathematics in the middle of the 20th century. - The Wall Street Journal