- "I think it's fair to compare Peter to Grothendieck in this sense. He is reinventing everything somehow."[ - "Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he's known for his unusual life, if he's known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions?"[ [, located in Bures-sur-Yvette, outside Paris. What followed — the twelve years from 1958 to 1970 — is simply one of the most extraordinary sustained eruptions of mathematical creativity on record." Then, in 1970, ...

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