in terms of math
is Grothendieck
Reminder that the GOAT of the 20th century
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Ryder James
>Dieudonné writes [9]:-
>A general theory of duality for locally convex spaces had to be worked out: Schwartz and I had started its study for Fréchet spaces and their direct limits, but we had met a series of problems we could not solve. We therefore proposed them to Grothendieck, and the result turned out to exceed our most sanguine expectations. In less than a year, he had solved all our problems by very ingenious new constructions; then, with the techniques he had developed, he started to work on many other questions in functional analysis.
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Luke Hughes
So Laurent Schwartz and Jean Dieudonné were brainlets compared to Grothendieck.
Luis Campbell
man was a genius
Dylan Hughes
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Julian Miller
Grothendieck took an IQ test and only got 118--he was fairly smart but definitely not a genius. If you're a math graduate you can flick through his papers and see some pretty embarrassing errors.
Lincoln Hall
Damn, Grothendieck looked like *that*?
Anthony Watson
man was essentially responsible for the vast majority of algebraic geometry concepts that we have today
>idiot because he made some errors
David Harris
HOW?!?!??!
Bentley Reyes
gotta take von neumann here in terms of 20th century and maybe the last 1000 years.