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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.

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Archiving mathematical correspondence

The Grothendieck-Mumford correspondence These letters have been published in Volume II of Mumford's complete works (Selected Papers II. On Algebraic Geometry, Including Correspondence with Grothendiec …
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Archiving mathematical correspondence

The Grothendieck-Brown correspondence As far as I know these letters are planned to be published alongside "Pursuing stacks" on Documents Mathématiques
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Archiving mathematical correspondence

This page https://agrothendieck.github.io/ is collecting (mainly from the https://grothendieck.umontpellier.fr/archives-grothendieck/) mathematical letters from Grothendieck (it is work in progress bu …
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Where can I find that Weil suggested a cohomology theory for characteristic $p>0$?

As already mentioned in the comments it is very likely that Weil's heuristics appear in "Numbers of solutions of equations in finite fields", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55(5): 497--508 (May 1949). But as …
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)

Tannakian categories, a terminology chosen by N. Saavedra in his thesis under Grothendieck. Grothendieck would prefer (Grothendieck–) Galois–Poincaré $\otimes$-categories. See Récoltes et Semailles.
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Authorship of Grothendieck universes

Even if there is an accepted answer, I would like to question the hypothesis. According to Ralf Krömer, La « machine de Grothendieck » se fonde-t-elle seulement sur des vocables métamathématiques? Bo …
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Who introduced nerves in category theory?

Who was the first to consider that categories were semi-simplicial sets (and in particular groupoids were simplicial sets)? I think there was a concept of nerve of a covering in algebraic topology bef …
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Cartier and the continuity of the early history of schemes

If you allow me I would divide the early history of schemes this way _ Weil, Zariski, Bourbaki, Nagata, Van der Waerden,... up to Chevalley (you can find an interesting blog here) J P Serre varieties …
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Phenomena of topos

These days I am wandering on a wild adventure in an incredible but intimidating land. Fortunately, I could find a guide to some animals of this land Phenomena of gerbes But someone said to me that thi …
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Has the mathematical content of Grothendieck's "Récoltes et Semailles" been used?

Yes, R&S proved to be influential in at least one sense, the mathematical work of Z. Mebkhout (part four is dedicated to him indeed: "À Zoghman Mebkhout l’ouvrier solitaire en témoignage de respect et …
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Who introduced the notion of ringed spaces?

My question is very concise, please forgive it. Who introduced the concept of ringed space? My first try would be that they were introduced by Cartan in his study of analytic functions with sheaves. …
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Jouanolou thesis on l-adic cohomology

The thesis is now published and you can find it in HAL/TEL https://theses.hal.science/tel-04236971v1 Jean-Pierre Jouanolou. Catégories Dérivées en Cohomologie ℓ-adique. Mathématiques [math]. Faculté d …
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Grothendieck on topological vector spaces

Maybe you will find interesting the following references Grothendieck's Theorem, past and present, Pisier or Grothendieck’s works on Banach spaces and their surprising recent repercussions A. Grothend …
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Grothendieck on polyhedra over finite fields

Not an exact answer to your question but maybe it can be helpful to know: La théorie combinatoire de l'icosaèdre by V Diekert This was a "Rapport pour un DES d'université de l'année 1977/78" under Gro …
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