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Quote by Alexander Grothendieck

“A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.”

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Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck was a prominent mathematician born on March 28, 1928, and passed away on November 13, 2014. He made groundbreaking contributions to algebraic geometry and homological algebra, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. more

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