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Born on March 28, , in Berlin, Alexandre Grothendieck is one of the great mathematicians to be known from the 20 th century. During World War 2, Grothendieck along with his mother lived in different camps in France as refugees. He attended different refugee schools and even tried to escape once. In one of the camps, his mother got afflicted with tuberculosis and later died due to it.

Local Protestants had established a school that was attended by many refugee children. Grothendieck also got a chance to be amongst them in While studying there, he developed a passion for mathematics and hence, followed it even after school. There he met great mathematicians of that era. Then, he got enrolled in University of Nancy in France and completed his doctorate in There, he got to learn a lot from his teacher Jean Dieudonne.

He dedicatedly worked with various mathematicians and brought forward many new concepts in algebraic geometry. Commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, category theory, and theory of schemes etc.

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This allowed future scientists and mathematicians to come up with new researches by applying his theories. Alexandre Grothendieck also published many articles and books during his life as a mathematician, some of which have been listed below. He got appointed at some other universities and research centers for short times to work in the same field, but he started taking interest in politics and other activities greater than mathematical work.

In , he compiled a book on non-mathematical topics. Finally, in , he retired from being a mathematician, leaving behind all of his achievements and co-workers.