Alexander Grothendieck

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French mathematician German-born mathematician algebraic geometer human mathematician

Alexander Grothendieck was a revolutionary 20th-century mathematician whose work in algebraic geometry and homological algebra profoundly reshaped modern mathematics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French mathematician → German-born mathematician → algebraic geometer → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Crafoord Prize → Fields Medal → Fields Medal 1966 → Prix Ampère → Prix Carrière → Prix Thiers → Prix de l’Académie des Sciences →
citizenship	France → Germany →
countryOfBirth	Weimar Republic →
countryOfDeath	France →
dateOfBirth	1928-03-28 →
dateOfDeath	2014-11-13 →
doctoralAdvisor	Jean Dieudonné → Laurent Schwartz →
doctoralThesisTitle	Produits tensoriels topologiques et espaces nucléaires →
doctoralThesisYear	1953 →
educatedAt	University of Montpellier → University of Nancy →
employer	CNRS → Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques → University of São Paulo →
familyName	Grothendieck →
fieldOfWork	algebraic geometry → category theory → homological algebra → number theory → topology →
fullName	Alexander Radu Mihai Grothendieck →
givenName	Alexander →
influenced	Alexander Beilinson → Jean-Louis Verdier → Pierre Deligne → Vladimir Drinfeld → many 20th-century mathematicians → modern algebraic geometry →
knownFor	EGA → Grothendieck groups and K-theory → Grothendieck topologies → Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem → SGA → Tôhoku paper on abelian categories → foundations of schemes → motives in algebraic geometry → revolutionizing algebraic geometry → étale cohomology →
languageSpoken	French → German → Spanish →
memberOf	Bourbaki group →
notableConcept	Grothendieck category → Grothendieck duality → Grothendieck group → Grothendieck inequality → Grothendieck spectral sequence → Grothendieck topology → Grothendieck topos → Grothendieck universe →
notableIdea	functorial viewpoint in algebraic geometry → use of categories and functors as foundations →
notableWork	Récoltes et Semailles → Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie → Éléments de géométrie algébrique →
placeOfBirth	Berlin →
placeOfDeath	Saint-Girons →
politicalActivity	anti–Vietnam War activism → peace activism →
positionHeld	researcher at IHÉS →
refusedAward	Crafoord Prize →
religion	spiritual seeker with eclectic beliefs →
residence	Lasserre →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jean-Louis Verdier ("Alexandre Grothendieck") → Pierre Deligne →	doctoralAdvisor
Alain Connes ("Alexandre Grothendieck") → Jean-Louis Verdier ("Alexandre Grothendieck") →	influencedBy
Laurent Schwartz →	doctoralStudent
Jean-Louis Verdier ("Alexandre Grothendieck") →	educatedBy
School of Mathematics →	employerOf
Alexander Grothendieck ("Grothendieck") →	familyName
Alexander Grothendieck ("Alexander Radu Mihai Grothendieck") →	fullName
Pierre Deligne →	hasAcademicAdvisor
Grothendieck universe →	namedAfter
Institute for Advanced Study →	notableScholar