Mathematician Alexander Grothendik died

On Thursday, November 13, at the age of 86, French mathematician Alexander Grothendik died.

According to Kommersant , the scientist died in the hospital of the city of Saint-Zhiron in the south of France.

Alexander Grothendik was born in 1928 in Berlin. His father was a native of Russia, in 1942 he died in Auschwitz. After the war, the future mathematician lived with his mother in Montpellier, where he graduated from the university.

Grothendik was part of a group of mathematicians who performed under the pseudonym "Nicolas Burbaka." The mathematician is known for the revolutionary contribution to algebraic geometry, as well as significant achievements in the theory of numbers, the theory of categories and homological algebra.

In 1966, he was awarded the Field Prize - the most prestigious award in mathematics. Grothendik abandoned her in protest against the suppression of dissent in the USSR, where the process of Sinyavsky and Daniel took place. That year, the Fields Prize was to be awarded at the XV mathematical congress in Moscow.