What is Alexander Grothendieck?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Alexander Grothendieck | image = Alexander Grothendieck.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Alexander Grothendieck in Montreal, 1970 | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|03|28|df=no}} | birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Weimar Republic]] | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2014|11|13|1928|03|28|df=yes}}}} | death_place = [[Saint-Lizier]], France | nationality = {{ublist |[[Statelessness|none]]|French{{sfn|Cartier|2004|loc=p. 10, footnote 12}}{{sfn|Kleinert|2007}}{{sfn|Douroux|2012}} }} | workplaces = {{ublist |[[Institut des hautes études scientifiques]] (IHÉS) |[[University of Montpellier]]{{sfn|Scharlau|2008}}|[[University of São Paulo]]<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Pierre Cartier|editor2=Luc Illusie|editor3=Nicholas M. Katz|title=The Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume I: A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_BnSoQSKnNUC&pg=PR7|year=2006|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-8176-4566-3|page=7}}</ref>}} | alma_mater = {{ublist |[[University of Montpellier]] |[[University of Nancy]]}} | thesis_title = Produits tensoriels topologiques et espaces nucleaires | thesis_url = http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/PTT.pdf | thesis_year = 1953 | doctoral_advisors = {{ublist|[[Laurent Schwartz]] |[[Jean Dieudonné]]}} | doctoral_students = {{ublist|[[Pierre Berthelot]] |Carlos Contou-Carrere |[[Pierre Deligne]] |[[Michel Demazure]] |[[Pierre Gabriel]] |[[Jean Giraud (mathematician)|Jean Giraud]] |[[Luc Illusie]] |[[Michel Raynaud]] |[[Hoàng Xuân Sính]] |[[Jean-Louis Verdier]]}} | fields = [[Mathematics]] | awards = {{ublist |{{smaller|1966}}&nbsp; [[Fields Medal]] |{{smaller|1988}}&nbsp; [[Crafoord Prize]] {{smaller|(declined)}} }} }} '''Alexander Grothendieck''' ([[Berlin]], 28 March 1928 {{ndash}} 13 November 2014, [[Saint-Girons, Ariège]]) was a leading figure in the modern field of [[algebraic geometry]] and [[Galois theory]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-hist