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Jevon23 | 1 year ago

Nothing forgotten about him. His work is foundational to modern algebraic geometry and there’s no mathematician who doesn’t know who he is.

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mjd|1 year ago

Right? It's baffling.

seanhunter|1 year ago

The title is specifically referring to a possible reassessment of his later, quasi-mystical writings, post retirement from mathematics in 1970.

It’s a bit too long for the HN title submission but the actual article title in the Guardian is

“ ‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?”