Alexander Grothendieck

1928 to 2014 7 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Alexander Grothendieck across 6 places, from 1933 to 1966. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA

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Where Alexander Grothendieck was documented, and when

1933year

Berlinattested “Grothendieck lived with his parents in Berlin until the end of 1933, when his father moved to Paris to evade Nazism.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1933year

Parisattested “Grothendieck lived with his parents in Berlin until the end of 1933, when his father moved to Paris to evade Nazism.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1948year

Parisattested “After three years of increasingly independent studies there, he went to continue his studies in Paris in 1948.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

October 1953month

Franceattested “He stayed in São Paulo (apart from a lengthy visit in France from October 1953 to March 1954) until the end of 1954.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1955year

Lawrence, Kansasattested “Grothendieck moved to Lawrence, Kansas at the beginning of 1955, and there he set his old subject aside in order to work in algebraic topology and homological algebra, and increasingly in algebraic geometry.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1959year

Nancy, Franceattested “He had five children: a son with his landlady during his time in Nancy; three children, Johanna (1959), Alexander (1961), and Mathieu (1965) with his wife Mireille Dufour; and one child with Justine Skalba, with whom he lived in a commun…” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1966year

Moscowattested “In 1966, he had declined to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow, where he was to receive the Fields Medal.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

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Places Alexander Grothendieck is documented in

Paris2 presences · 1933 to 1948 Berlin1 presence · 1933 France1 presence · 1953 Moscow1 presence · 1966

Lawrence, Kansas1 presence · 1955

Nancy, France1 presence · 1959

Other places tied to Alexander Grothendieck in the record

In each of these, a source puts Alexander Grothendieck and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Alexander Grothendieck was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1938year

Francementioned “In 1938, aged ten, he moved to France as a refugee.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

May 1939month

Hamburgmentioned “In May 1939, Grothendieck was put on a train in Hamburg for France.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1942year

Drancy internment campmentioned “His father was arrested under the Vichy anti-Jewish legislation, and sent to the Drancy internment camp, and then handed over by the French Vichy government to the Germans to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where he w…” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1942year

Auschwitz concentration campmentioned “His father was arrested under the Vichy anti-Jewish legislation, and sent to the Drancy internment camp, and then handed over by the French Vichy government to the Germans to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where he w…” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1942year

Drancymentioned “His father was arrested under the Vichy anti-Jewish legislation, and sent to the Drancy internment camp, and then handed over by the French Vichy government to the Germans to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where he w…” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1945year

Third Reichmentioned “Records of his nationality were destroyed in the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 and he did not apply for French citizenship after the war.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1949 to 1953period

Nancy, Francementioned “Between 1949 and 1953 he worked on his doctoral thesis in this subject at Nancy, supervised by Jean Dieudonné and Laurent Schwartz.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1950 to 1953period

Nancy, Francementioned “In Nancy, he wrote his dissertation under those two professors on functional analysis, from 1950 to 1953.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1953year

University of São Paulomentioned “In 1953 he moved to the University of São Paulo in Brazil, where he immigrated by means of a Nansen passport, given that he had refused to take French nationality (as that would have entailed military service against his convictions).” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1953year

Brazilmentioned “In 1953 he moved to the University of São Paulo in Brazil, where he immigrated by means of a Nansen passport, given that he had refused to take French nationality (as that would have entailed military service against his convictions).” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1957year

Harvard Universitymentioned “In 1957 he was invited to visit Harvard University by Oscar Zariski, but the offer fell through when he refused to sign a pledge promising not to work to overthrow the United States government—a refusal which, he was warned, threatened t…” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1957year

Bonnmentioned “The Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem was announced by Grothendieck at the initial Mathematische Arbeitstagung in Bonn, in 1957.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1958year

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiquesmentioned “In 1958, Grothendieck was installed at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS), a new privately funded research institute that, in effect, had been created for Jean Dieudonné and Grothendieck.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

1983year

Bangor Universitymentioned “In 1983, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor University, Grothendieck wrote a 600-page manuscript entitled Pursuing Stacks.” source: Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

Documented at the same place, the same year

Menachem Mendel SchneersonGermany · 1933 Anna AkhmatovaMoscow · 1966 Jacqueline du PréMoscow · 1966 Dean ReedMoscow · 1966 Lal Bahadur ShastriMoscow · 1966 Mikhail MishustinMoscow · 1966 Rosalind FranklinParis · 1953 Peter II of YugoslaviaParis · 1953 Francis PicabiaParis · 1953 Fernando BoteroParis · 1953 Ivan BuninParis · 1953 Ursula K. Le GuinParis · 1953

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Sources

Wikipedia: Alexander Grothendieck

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