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The Grothendieck

October 8, 2019From the book Change Is the Only Constant

A mathematician proudly reinvents the wheel and names it after himself.

Transcript

"Behold! I have invented a rotating device of minimal perimeter and maximal symmetry! I shall call it… THE GROTHENDIECK" [A wheel] "Wow! How… um, novel!"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-10-08-the-grothendieck/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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