From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8389 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Duskin Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Contact with Grothendieck Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:35:22 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: John Duskin NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.0 \(1990.1\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416275572 13157 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 01:52:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:52:52 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Nov 18 02:52:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqXyH-0006KQ-R1 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:52:46 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:37645) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XqXxQ-0007Es-21; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqXxO-0002b9-Au for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:51:50 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8389 Archived-At: My first contact with Grothendieck was in the late sixties through a = letter to him from a naive grad student (me) asking him if I could come = to France and study with his group in Paris as I expected a Canadian = post doc which would take me there. In reply, I received a very nice = letter from him telling me that I should go to Strasbourg and study with = a new student of his, J.-L.Verdier. That the same sort of thing had sent = him to Nancy rather than Paris when he was young and he had never = regretted it. This I did and learned a hell of a lot. I got to know him personally quite well after that in Buffalo when he = came here for two summers in 1970-71 thanks to NSF and the department = and (his view) that the IHES was funded by the french military. It was a = way that he could fund Survivre.=20 Among others, he gave a beautiful series of advanced lectures on the = Grothendieck-Teichmuller group as well as elementary lectures on sheaf = theory. Some of these were recorded and were redone more recently by = Bill Lawvere . Perhaps now these should become available=E2=80=A6. John Duskin =20= [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]