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Monday, March 8th, 2010
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| 3:35a |
"Grothendieck prime"
...One striking characteristic of Grothendieck's mode of
thinking is that it seemed to rely so little on
examples. This can be seen in the legend of the
so-called "Grothendieck prime". In a mathematical
conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that
they should consider a particular prime number. "You
mean an actual number?" Grothendieck asked. The other
person replies, yes, an actual prime
number. Grothendieck suggested, "All right, take 57."
http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf |
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