{"id":7273,"date":"2014-11-14T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2014-11-14T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:48:01","slug":"alexander-grothendieck-rip-the-interest-isnt-just-in-the-mathematics-so-much-as-in-his-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/alexander-grothendieck-rip-the-interest-isnt-just-in-the-mathematics-so-much-as-in-his-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Grothendieck, RIP. The interest isn&#8217;t just in the mathematics, so much as in his character&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Alexander Grothendieck, RIP.<\/p>\n<p>The interest isn&#8217;t just in the mathematics, so much as in his character: he was a maximally intolerant of BS. He was also intense.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, after yesterday&#8217;s post announcing it, I had dinner with someone who grew up knowing him and broke the news to him. Both he and his wife grew up with (coincidentally) G as a friend of their respective families. There are plenty of G stories. One of the stories, he said G once opened one of his high shool math books, looked at it with horror, then ran to show it to Dieudonn\u00e9 (another giant), shouting: &#8220;look at the garbage they teach students&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>G was self taught; he believed that school couldn&#8217;t teach anyone anything except junk, and that academia was the refuge of the corrupt, the uninspired, and the incompetent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152603656183375&amp;id=13012333374\">Alexander Grothendieck, RIP. The interest isn&#8217;t&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Grothendieck, RIP. The interest isn&#8217;t just in the mathematics, so much as in his character: he was a maximally intolerant of BS. He was also intense. Coincidentally, after yesterday&#8217;s post announcing it, I had dinner with someone who grew up knowing him and broke the news to him. Both he and his wife grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[841],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-alexander-grothendieck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}