How Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics (opens in new tab)

Konstantin Kakaes at Quanta: What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more quickly than physics does. But as with Einstein, Grothendieck’s impact came not just from his own results, revolutionary though they were. His work also reoriented his…