Grothendieck: 18,000 pages now available
Alexandre Grothendieck left behind some 28,000 unpublished pages. This treasure trove, which may hold 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 breakthrough. Mathematicians are hopeful; they believe that certain pages may contain a goldmine of information, provided they can understand Alexandre Grothendieck’s reasoning.
And according to Jean Magloire, a lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier and a former student of Alexandre Grothendieck, “mathematicians will find answers to questions they’ve been asking themselves for a long time. For example, algebraic geometry can be used in cryptography to secure data exchanges. This is a major, significant challenge!”
