Grothendieck: 18,000 pages now available
Alexandre Grothendieck left behind some 28,000 unpublished pages. This treasure trove, which may contain the master's final flashes of genius, is finally being unveiled.
Perhaps the study of these notes by several researchers, working as a team if necessary, will one day lead to a discovery. Mathematicians are hopeful, believing that certain pages may contain gold mines, provided that Alexandre Grothendieck's reasoning can be understood.
And for Jean Magloire, lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier and former student of Alexandre Grothendieck, "mathematicians will have answers to questions they have been asking themselves for a long time. For example, algebraic geometry can be used in cryptology to secure computer exchanges. This is a major, considerable challenge!"
