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Here’s a small collection of links to articles about Alexandre Grothendieck, French/German mathematician and algebraic geometer, who died on Wednesday 13 November aged 86. He was a pioneer in the field, and has been described as ‘the greatest mathematician of the 20^th century’.

• His obituary in The Telegraph
• The AMS announcement
• A New York Times obituary
• An obituary at Liberation and another obituary at Le Monde (both in French)
• A 2010 blog post about Grothendieck by Jordan Ellenberg
• The Grothendieck Circle, which aims to collate and translate material written by and about Grothendieck
• The Generalist – by economist Steven Landsburg