18,000 pages of Grothendieck's work are available online.

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A piece of news caught the attention of numerous mathematicians last Wednesday (10). The University of Montpellier, in France, released access to approximately 18,000 pages of work by the German mathematician Alexandre Grothendieck, a researcher at the institution in the 70s and 80s.

Winner of the Fields Medal in 1966, the mathematician was known for his pioneering work in the field of algebraic geometry and also for his strong political convictions, which led him to isolate himself from academic and public life from 1991 onwards.

According to Jean-Michel Marin, director of the Grothendieck Institute, the researcher's writings will take years to be analyzed by experts in the field. "There are only a few hundred people in the world who can understand the content," he said in an interview with Agence France-Presse.

Grothendieck had a brief but intense relationship with Brazil. He lived in São Paulo from 1952 to 1954, teaching at USP in a course on topological vector spaces. He submitted four articles that were published in the main scientific catalogs of the time, according to mathematician Alberto de Azevedo . A profile of Grothendieck and his work can be read in Revista Piauí 99.

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