Pierre Cartier

Pierre Cartier was a member of the Bourbaki, and a friend and colleague of Alexander Grothendieck. He is known for the eponymous Cartier divisor and the introduction of the Cartier operator in algebraic geometry in characteristic p, as well as for his work on duality of abelian varieties and formal groups. He was awarded the Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Mathematics A Country Known Only by Name [long_description] Among mathematicians, he is likened to Einstein. Among others, he evokes gossip and pity. From the depths of his self-imposed isolation, Alexander Grothendieck has sent us a vast, introspective work: Récoltes et Semailles (Crops and Seeds). Mathematician Pierre Cartier, one of Grothendieck’s colleagues, offers a rational and honest appraisal the work and the man.

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