Alexander Grothendieck

Career

1. 1928
   Born
2. 1957
   Won Cours Peccot
3. 1966
   Won Fields medal
4. 1977
   Won Émile Picard Medal
5. 1988
   Won Crafoord Prize in Mathematics
6. 2014
   Passed away
7. Member of Nicolas Bourbaki
8. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9. Notable work: Reaping and sowing
10. Notable work: Grothendieck–Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem
11. Notable work: Birkhoff–Grothendieck theorem
12. Notable work: Ax–Grothendieck theorem
13. Notable work: Grothendieck trace theorem

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Berlin
• •Citizenship: France, statelessness
• •Known as: mathematician, university teacher