A (very) Brief History of Alexander Grothendieck
80K views · Nov 30, 2020 · Education
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@DC-zi6se · 5 years ago
This guy is such a great inspiration of mine. He along with Von Neumann, Shannon and Kolmogorov, changed 20th century mathematics.
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@chipthequinn · 1 year ago
The voice-over is filled to the brim with comical mispronunciations, mostly of French. It's SOOOO much better than a robot voice track.
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@alexandersanchez9138 · 4 years ago
Talent is doing something hard; genius is doing easily that which others find impossible. Grothendieck's style of the rising sea is genius distilled in mathematics.
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@raphaellago5071 · 5 years ago (edited)
what a coincidence, when i start studying the life of Alexander Grothendieck you post this video. Thank you
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@account-gp4sn · 5 months ago
Alicia Western studied with him back in the day! So sad what happened to her, she had so much potential!
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@pourtoukist · 2 years ago
I appreciate the effort you put in the correct prononciation of the french names
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@reimannx33 · 3 years ago
Living in primal conditions and on a diet of bean soup - a mathematician's mathematician.
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@brandonwalker5011 · 5 years ago
One of my professor's actually had the chance to meet Grothendieck before he went into seclusion!
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@abstractnonsense3253 · 5 years ago
This is a great idea for a channel. I'll have to watch more brief biographies of mathematicians. <br><br><br><br><br>One constructive criticism, if I may. Don't put so much emphasis on pronunciation. Even if the pronunciations of non english names were correct, emphasising them strongly would still take away from the flow of the story. It's more engaging to focus on the history and on how interesting these people were.
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@supriyapaul5936 · 4 years ago
What an extraordinary man !!Thank you very much for sharing so much information about him.
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@feraudyh · 4 years ago (edited)
The background music is Ralph Vaughn Williams' 5th symphony.
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@Cam-vv5xd · 5 years ago
Th quality of these videos foreshows a massive boom in your youtube influence. These are amazing vids!
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