Brilliant, Eccentric Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck Dies At 86
Grothendieck quit mathematics to save the world in the 1970s.
Alexander Grothendieck, a French mathematician who won the Fields medal in 1966 for his groundbreaking work in algebra and geometry, has died at the age of 86. He passed away Thursday in a hospital in Saint-Girons in southwestern France, according to hospital staff who did not provide any further details.
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