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the greatest mathematician of the 20th century

Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 18:09:25 2020 No.11585148 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11585231 >>11585517 >>11586008 >>11586786

would you agree?

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-anarchist-abstractionist-who-was-alexander-grothendieck-cc396083d94e

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 18:19:25 No.11585174 Report

Quoted By: >>11585216

better than Von Neumann? Hilbert?

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 18:31:06 No.11585216 Report

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>>11585174
Yes.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 18:34:48 No.11585231 Report

Quoted By: >>11585979

>>11585148
Probably. Too bad he had a nervous breakdown, burned most of his unpublished work and went to live on the Alps as an hermit

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 19:19:54 No.11585358 Report

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foucault?

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 20:15:41 No.11585517 Report

Quoted By: >>11585692

>>11585148

No. Hand-waving symbol soup isn't math. You have your own board anyway, so use it

>>>/lit/

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 21:15:16 No.11585679 Report

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yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 21:20:10 No.11585692 Report

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>>11585517
>Hand-waving symbol soup isn't math
Numbers are symbols.
Operations are symbols.
Foundational axioms are hand-waves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 22:55:13 No.11585979 Report

Quoted By: >>11586001

>>11585231
>alps
no

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 23:02:42 No.11586001 Report

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>>11585979
Nobody actually cares to which French cuck mountain he went to cosplay as Gandalf

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2020 23:04:42 No.11586008 Report

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>>11585148
Yes. Incels on this board will disagree because they've never even read a single of his books and couldn't tell you what a topos is to save their lives.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2020 02:51:59 No.11586709 Report

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Lex Luther lookin ass hol

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2020 03:11:19 No.11586786 Report

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>>11585148

Brilliant? No. Massive attention whore? Yes.

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