“a kind of remake of the most limited aspects of Christianity”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
Figure timeline
Alexander Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French, was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revoluti…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
science · French mathematician (1928–2014) · mathematician · university teacher · also Alexander Grothendieck, Alexandre Grothendieck, Grothendieck
Born 28 March 1928 · Died 13 November 2014 · Q77141
51 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
4 photos · 1 audio
🔊 How to say “Alexander Grothendieck”
Listen
De-Alexander Grothendieck
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
And as I haven’t got the means to knock it into shape, I feel bad about that. I feel as if I’m still living in my father’s house.
85%The GuardianSource
2026· 2 entries
“And as I haven’t got the means to knock it into shape, I feel bad about that. I feel as if I’m still living in my father’s house.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
2025· 1 entry
But as of May 2026 it is not yet available
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2024· 1 entry
Nature: Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), France
- #news
- #headline
2022· 1 entry
By Gallimard and, thanks to French science historian Alain Herreman, is also available on the Internet
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2014· 6 entries
The Boston Globe: Alexander Grothendieck, 86; reclusive mathematician
- #news
- #headline
The Guardian: Alexander Grothendieck obituary
- #news
- #headline
The Hindu: Alexander Grothendieck: a visionary who did pioneering work in algebraic geometry
- #news
- #headline
The Washington Post: Alexander Grothendieck, mathematical genius who went into self-exile, dies at 86
- #news
- #headline
The Forward: Alexander Grothendieck, Brilliant Jewish Mathematician, Dies at 86
- #news
- #headline
Died 2014-11-13.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
2009· 1 entry
Can one explain schemes to biologists —biographical sketch of Grothendieck by David Mumford & John Tate
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2004· 1 entry
idw: Alexander Grothendieck - berühmter Mathematiker und Einsiedler
- #news
- #headline
1997· 1 entry
“The most abominable thing in the fate of victims is that Satan is master of their thoughts and feelings.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
1991· 3 entries
This latter opus of approximately 2000 pages, further developed the homotopical ideas begun in Pursuing Stacks
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Moved to the French village of Lasserre in the Pyrenees, where he lived in seclusion, still working on mathematics and his philosophical and religious thoughts until his death in 2014
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Grothendieck moved to a new address that he did not share with his previous contacts in the mathematical community
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 2 entries
Was a three-volume collection of research papers to mark his sixtieth birthday in 1988
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
For risking their lives to rescue Jews, the entire village was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1988· 3 entries
Awarded Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (1988).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Grothendieck declined the Crafoord Prize with an open letter to the media
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
A few years after having accepted a research position at the CNRS
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1987· 1 entry
Is Grothendieck's account of how his consideration of the source of dreams led him to conclude that a God exists
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1984· 1 entry
Grothendieck wrote the proposal Esquisse d'un Programme ("Sketch of a Programme") for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1983· 1 entry
Stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor University, Grothendieck wrote a 600-page manuscript entitled Pursuing Stacks
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1977· 1 entry
Won Émile Picard Medal (1977).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
1970· 1 entry
Grothendieck, with two other mathematicians, Claude Chevalley and Pierre Samuel, created a political group entitled Survivre—the name later changed to Survivre et vivre
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1966· 3 entries
Won Fields medal (1966).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
For advances in algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and K-theory
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Had declined to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow, where he was to receive the Fields Medal
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1964· 1 entry
Said that Grothendieck came to talk to him a few times about physics
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1958· 2 entries
Grothendieck was installed at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS), a new privately funded research institute that, in effect, had been created for Jean Dieudonné and Grothendieck
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Was appointed a research professor at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS) and remained there until 1970, when, driven by personal and political convictions, he left following a dispute over military fu
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1957· 3 entries
Awarded Cours Peccot (1957).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Was invited to visit Harvard University by Oscar Zariski, but the offer fell through when he refused to sign a loyalty oath, a pledge promising not to work to overthrow the United States government—a refusal which, he
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
From tuberculosis that she contracted in camps for displaced persons
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1956· 1 entry
Applied the same thinking to the Riemann–Roch theorem, which recently had been generalized to any dimension by Hirzebruch
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1953· 3 entries
Moved to the University of São Paulo in Brazil, where he immigrated by means of a Nansen passport, given that he had refused to take French nationality (as that would have entailed military service against his convict
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Studied at Nancy-Université (1949–1953).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
Have been successfully applied to physics and computer science, culminating in a relation between Grothendieck inequality and the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox in quantum physics
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1949· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1948–1949).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
1948· 1 entry
Studied at University of Montpellier (1945–1948).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
1945· 2 entries
Studied at Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International (1942–1945).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
And he did not apply for French citizenship after the war
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1938· 2 entries
Aged ten, he moved to France as a refugee
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
By local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1933· 1 entry
Grothendieck lived with his parents in Berlin until the end of 1933, when his father moved to Paris to evade Nazism.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #family-and-childhood
1929· 1 entry
And Schapiro acknowledged his paternity, but never married Hanka Grothendieck
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-03-28.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
1922· 2 entries
While his mother, Johanna "Hanka" Grothendieck, came from a Protestant German family in Hamburg and worked as a journalist
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
His father, Alexander "Sascha" Schapiro (also known as Alexander Tanaroff), had Hasidic Jewish roots and had been imprisoned in Russia before moving to Germany in 1922, while his mother, Johanna "Hanka" Grothendieck, came from a Protestant German family in Hamburg and worked as a journalist.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #family-and-childhood