Timeline for Grothendieck's passing
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 19:04 | comment | added | vzn | did this proposal get carried out? can someone link to it if so? (planning a blog on the subject myself.) or maybe there should be more meta discussion 1st :p ... on other hand, simple question about his impact on TCS went viral, yay =) ... there are indeed many accounts of grothendieck, but feel it would be very helpful/ worthwhile if the se Q/A format was used as a memorial-like format as in that TCS question & dont regard it as misuse of se, more a sterling use & great example of collective wisdom | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 2:01 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | The official version of Serre's report is at portico.org/stable?au=pgg197gm5dt, readable only if your institution subscribes to Portico. | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 23:43 | comment | added | Tom Church | It's very difficult to track down the report that Donu mentioned (back issues of K-Theory are not easy to access online), but I found it here: phdtree.org/pdf/… | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @DonuArapura That's a good point. With that in mind, it might then make more sense to narrow it down to answers which outline his achievements (or ideas/visions) in the years after his "retirement", e.g., stuff on the long march, the Esquisse, etc. I know of a Festschrift, but I thought something online and for general audiences might be good. Does something like this exist? | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 21:37 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | As I'm sure many people already know, there many good answers already in various places to "what specifically did he achieve"?. In particular, Serre's report to the Fields medal committee, which has since been published, contains a good summary of Grothendieck's pre-1966 work. | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 1:42 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I can understand discomfort with memorializing (cf. comments here: mathoverflow.net/questions/81821/in-memoriam-torsten-ekedahl), but this situation might be a little different (as AG was not personally known by most of us here, and in fact has had little contact with the mathematical world for over 20 years). But, we should discuss. I'm not trying to push anything, just proposing a possibility which could be very educational. | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 1:36 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @TheMaskedAvenger I was proposing to go more in the direction of actual mathematics than memorializing per se - what we do best here. We've all heard what a legendary and visionary and truly unique mathematician he was, but what specifically did he achieve? This is a big list: work on functional analysis and nuclear spaces; influential work in homological algebra; a foundational reworking of Galois theory; obviously the radical reformulation of the Weil conjectures in terms of etale cohomomology of schemes; themes emanating from the Esquisse d'un Programme; anabelian geometry... etc. etc. | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 20:13 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | As may have been done with other memorialized members, a question like "where can I find a memorial page for X?" with an answer giving a link seems most appropriate. If they were also MO participants, a little more effort and information might be appropriate, but this forum serves better as a reference to such a service, and not to assuming any aspects of that service. | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 17:44 | vote | accept | Joseph O'Rourke | ||
| Nov 15, 2014 at 16:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd TrimbleMod | ||
| Nov 15, 2014 at 16:38 | history | answered | Todd TrimbleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |