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Alex Grothendieck

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Alex Grothendieck was born on March 28th, 1928 in Berlin, Prussia, Weimar Republic. Grothendieck lived with his family in Berlin to anarchist parents. He lived with his parents till the end of 1933. Alex Grothendieck then passed away on November 13th, 2014 in Saint-Lizer, France. He passed on at the hospital of Saint-Girons Ariege. Alex Grothendieck lived a full life, to the age of 86. Shaped math to what it is today and solved some of the world’s hardest problems. Alex Grothendieck studied at the University of Montpellier, Nancy – Universite. The University was based off in France which is also where he lived. It is a French research University in Montpellier south-east of France. A few years after he then joined the Institut des Hautes …show more content…

His fathers name was Alexander "Sascha" Schapiro. His mothers name was Johanna "Hanka" Grothndieck. She was married to a jounalists named Johannes Raddatz during the time of Alex Grothendiecks birth. In 1933 his parents moved away to Paris to evade the Nazism heading towards them. Grothendieck went to France during World War in 1939 to stay away from it. He lived with his mom in various camps for displaced families and people. Throughout the later years of the war they spent most of their time in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. They were hidden villages in local houses. During the war, with all the concentration camps going on, his father was murdered in Aushwitz in 1942. It can only be imagined how hard it was for Alex during that time of cruelty and pain. He used his education to get away from all of that poverty. Alex Grothendieck was a German/French born mathematician who became a leading figure in creation of todays modern algeraic geometry. His research extended the outlook of the field and then he added the elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, category theory, and sheaf theory. While to him his so called "relative" perspective led to the revolutionary upgrades in many areas of the mathematics pure. Alex is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in the world of the 20th century. Grothendieck started his productive career and public career as one of the mathematicians in the really …show more content…

Some of his major key contributions to mathematics include topological tensor products of topological vector spaces, the divine theory of nuclear spaces as set for the foundational for the Schwartz distributions. In algebraic geometry and fields related to that sort, Grothendieck did most of his influential and important work in these fields. Grothendieck basically set the tone for todays modern algebra. The theory of Algebraic Geometry; It included commutative and homological algebra along with sheaf and category theory. He molded a major stepping stone in technical work through his theory of schemes. This led to the study of algebraic number theories. His most well-known achievements was relating to the determination of the first arithmetic Weil cohomology

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