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		coffeeaddict1 on March 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cultural divide between mathematics and AI I would also add Grothendieck to that list.

pathsjs on March 14, 2025 [–]

Grothendieck did not have a comprehensive view of mathematics, nor he ever claimed to. There are vast swathes of mathematics (e.g. PDE or probability) that never fell under Grothendieck's radar

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