The Math Genius Who Suddenly Disappeared

Alexander Grothendieck was at the top of the mathematical world before disappearing. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Chapters: 0:00 The Mathematician Who Disappeared 0:20 A Traumatic Childhood 1:19 Discovering Mathematics 1:53 Thinking Like a Mathematician 2:28 Stateless and Struggling 3:06 Rise to Greatness 3:20 Algebraic Geometry 4:00 The Weil Conjectures 4:35 A Different Way of Thinking 5:08 Suddenly Quitting 6:27 A Strange Final Chapter 7:37 Shaping the World Today 8:13 Learning Math Intuitively Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Grothendieck pictures sourced from https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/photos.php Auschwitz camp photo by Cindy Pom University of Montpellier: Vpe, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons IHÉS building Contributed by Vassilii Khachaturov, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons French Ministry of Defence: Rutgers University: Tomwsulcer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Grothendieck tombstone: Gustav Roch, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons