Writer’s Desk: Know When to Walk Away
Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) was one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth century. When Fermat’s Last Theorem was finally solved in 1994, it was only because of what Grothendieck had discovered about algebraic geometry. But he was not just a numbers guy. Like many mathematicians, he was primarily a problem-solver. He loved it. Not …
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