Divulgative action
Blog with news around Grothendieck, and organization of scientific dissemination events, including a biannual symposium.
The Centre for Grothendieckian Studies (CSG) is a research centre of the Grothendieck Institute, with a dedicated mission to honour the memory of Alexander Grothendieck, an influential mathematician, thinker and writer of the 20th century. Through extensive efforts, we strive to enlarge the accessibility of his remarkable scientific and cultural heritage to experts and the general public while disseminating his groundbreaking ideas.
The CSG offers a valuable online resource featuring extensive surveys and catalogues of Grothendieck’s works as well as of modern Grothendieckian scholarship. This dynamic database provides summaries and digital access to a wide range of materials, including catalogues, unpublished works, bibliographic references, editorial projects, transcriptions, ongoing research, events, and much more. Explore our vibrant community, and get in touch!
Comprehensive information accessible online on Grothendieck’s works and Grothendieck’s secondary literature.
Blog with news around Grothendieck, and organization of scientific dissemination events, including a biannual symposium.
Construction of a biennial journal, the Quaderni del Centro di Studi Grothendieckiani, which will notably publish the Proceedings of the CSG Symposia.
Coordination of editions of unpublished Grothendieck manuscripts, either mathematical, literary, philosophical, ethical or sociological.
Collaborative work by an international team of top scholars with unique expertise relevant for the valorisation of Alexander
Grothendieck’s
cultural heritage.
Historical studies and search for new materials (manuscripts, lessons, videos, audios) by A. Grothendieck or, more generally, related to his work.
Development of new trends in philosophy, mathematics, epistemology and ontology inspired by Grothendieck’s methods and his universal, general, vision of culture.
Research around central themes in Grothendieck’s thinking: ethics, ecology, connections between the arts and the sciences, the psychology of creativity, community construction, spirituality.
Deciphering and high-quality retyping of unpublished manuscripts of A. Grothendieck and diffusion of these transcriptions through the CSG’s website
(upon consent of
the right holders).
