Download or read book The Grothendieck Festschrift, Volume II written by Pierre Cartier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume work contains articles collected on the occasion of Alexander Grothendieck’s sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians. Many of the groundbreaking contributions in these volumes contain material that is now considered foundational to the subject. Topics addressed by these top-notch contributors match the breadth of Grothendieck’s own interests, including: functional analysis, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, number theory, representation theory, K-theory, category theory, and homological algebra.