vuptm@mander.xyzOPtoScience@mander.xyz•Transcription and translation of Grothendieck’s 1972 CERN talk "Will we continue scientific research?"
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15 days agoFair point, and of course Grothendieck was notoriously extreme on this point (retiring completely from society and asking for his works to be destroyed). For us modern readers, it’s probably more interesting to view this as a glimpse into his mind and the mind of the mathematical community at the time than any kind of guidance.
The Riemann surface of the multi-valued square root function on the complex numbers. The original image is here.