you ever read a mathematicianās biography and get jealous of all the nonmathematical parts like the part where they acquired the patronage of catherine the great or the part where they had to be exiled from paris for unstated political reasons
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nothing interesting has happened to a mathematician since WWII. this is only a slight exaggeration
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Bro why you gotta do Grothendieck like this?
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heās like maybe one of the few exceptions lol
supposedly he wrote something called āin praise of incestā at some point but idk if itās available anywhere. this is the most interesting fact i know about grothendieck
This is a somewhat more interesting fact than him fucking off to be a shepherd (or goatherd?) in the 1970s tho
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