From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2737 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Seely Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Grothendieck bio? Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20040630174359.50998.qmail@web52607.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018863 5552 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:27:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Jul 2 07:47:32 2004 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:47:32 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1BgLVJ-0005N9-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:42:49 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20040630174359.50998.qmail@web52607.mail.yahoo.com> Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 22 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2737 Archived-At: Don't know of any "standard biography", though you could check out some links on-line (the Triples home page lists the following: http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/recoltes1.html http://www.grothendieck-circle.org/ http://modular.fas.harvard.edu/sga/ http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~maltsin/groth/Derivateurs.html (though the last two are reprints of papers etc)). In addition, a French publication "Bourbaki" (pub by Pour La Science - the French edition of Scientific American) mentions him as part of that group - and has a rather nice photo of him and his child. Good luck! -= rags =- On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Galchin Vasili wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know of a Grothendieck biography? For > me many times it is helpful to read a bio to the > historical development of a person's work. > > Thanks in advance, Bill Halchin > > --