• @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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    82 months ago

    Someone help me; I don’t know who this is and don’t know what to Google to decide if this is funny or not!

    • @V0ldek
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      102 months ago

      That is Alexander Grothendieck. He’s involved with some abstract algebra I’m way to sober to grok rn. My only knowledge of him is that his stuff basically established category theory as a thing, although apparently that was completely unintentional on his end.

      He seems to have been an… interesting character in his later years

      Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup.