Correspondence

The manner in which life fared with me would fill many books which have not yet been written.

The correspondence of A. Grothendieck holds immense importance as a resource for researchers in social, historical, and scientific studies, manifesting in various ways. Personal letters offer a glimpse into the richness of his life and the tumultuous 20th century. The scientific letters are crucial for delving into his scientific biography and understanding his communication methodologies and learning processes. This scientific material is essential because comprehending his finished works often necessitates insight into the master plan, posing a challenge in learning and digestion. These letters emerge as a highly motivating resource for delving into these theories while witnessing the very process of their creation.

The CSG is aware of the invaluable nature of these works and is actively engaged in promoting their collection, dissemination, and preservation. By pursuing this initiative, the CSG demonstrates its commitment to honor and safeguard this resource, ensuring its availability for future generations while fostering scholarly engagement and interdisciplinary exploration.

  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 20.11.1950
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 10.12.1950
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Date: 7.6.1951
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Date: 2.5.1952
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Date: 18.7.1954
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Date: 28.6.1954
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Date: 13.8.1954
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à J. Dixmier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 24.1.1955
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • TitleLettre à Motchane
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 15.12.1958
  • From: Harvard
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à Motchane
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 23.12.1958
  • From: Harvard
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 1959 (?)
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 29]
  • TitleLettre à N. Bourbaki
  • Language: French
  • Date: 9.10.1960
  • Published in: Notices of the AMS: Vol 63, No.4
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Notes: Letter of resignation from Bourbaki
  • TitleLetter to H. Hironaka
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 18.7.1962
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 57]
  • Notes: Letter on Picard schemes
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 18.7.1962
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 57]
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 1962(?)
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 57]
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 18.7.1962
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 57]
  • Notes: Letter on Picard schemes
  • TitleLetter to J. Tate
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 5.2.1962
  • Published in: D. Mumford. Selected Papers, Volume II. Springer 2010
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Notes: Letter on Picard schemes
  • TitleLetter to M. Atiyah
  • Language: English
  • Date: 14.10.1963
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on the Rham cohomology of algebraic varieties
  • Title: Lettre à J.-P. Serre
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 12.8.1964
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 44]
  • TitleLetter to J. Nash
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 6.2.1964
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à J. Nash
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 8.4.1964
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à P. Deligne
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 10.12.1965
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 5]
  • Notes: Letter on duality and p-adic cohomologies.
  • TitleLettre à J. Dieudonné
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 29.9.1965
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive
  • Title: Letter to J. Coates
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 6.1.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 16]
  • Notes: Letter on algebraic cycles and the standard conjectures
  • TitleLettre à J. L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 4.3.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à J. L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 16.3.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à J. L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 16.11.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à J. Tate
  • Language: French
  • Date: 5.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan], Montpellier archive [Cote No. 6]
  • Notes: Letter on cristals
  • Title: Lettre à J. Dieudonné
  • Language: French
  • Date: 1960s(?)
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à J. Dieudonné
  • Language: French
  • Date: 9.12.1966
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à J. Dieudonné
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 15.9.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • TitleLetter to Anantharaman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 11.9.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 91]
  • TitleLettre à P. Cartier
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 30.5.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à J. Dieudonné
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 27.8.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Title: Letter to J. Coates
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 4.1.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 16]
  • Notes: Letter on algebraic cycles and the standard conjectures
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 24.4.1967
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 29]
  • TitleLetter to Kostant
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 22.10.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 123]
  • TitleLetter to J. Lipman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 21.5.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Lipman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 16.9.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Murre
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 1969(?)
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 29]
  • TitleLettre à L. Illusie
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 2-4.12.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Notes: Letter on deformations of Barsotti-Tate groups.
  • TitleLettre à J. Giraud
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 13.6.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Lipman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 22.8.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Lipman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 12.6.1969
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Letter to Barsotti
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 11.5.1970
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on Barsotti-Tate groups
  • Title: Lettre à J.-L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.11.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Notes: Letter about S.G.A
  • TitleLettre à Michon
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.11.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Notes: Letter about SGA
  • TitleLettre à D. Ferrand
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.11.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • TitleLetter to J. Lipman
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 3.3.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre à P. Deligne
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.11.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan], Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Notes: Letter about SGA
  • TitleLettre à J.-L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 23.6.1971
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Notes: Letter about S.G.A
  • TitleLettre à J.-L. Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 18.5.1971
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 37]
  • Title: Lettre à L. Illusie
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.5.1973
  • Published in: Jannsen, U.: Motivic sheaves and filtration on Chow groups, In: Motives. Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 20–August 2, 1991 (Ed. by Uwe Jannsen, Steven Kleiman and Jean-Pierre Serre) Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 55, Part I and II, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, (1994)
  • Bibliographical data: [Zbl], [pdf]
  • Notes: Letter on motives
  • TitleLettre à H. Seydi
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 13.2.1973
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Letter to F. Knudsen
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 19.5.1973
  • Published in: Determinant functors on exact categories and their extensions to categories of bounded complexes. Michigan Math. J., 50 (2):407-444, 2002
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • TitleLettre à P. Deligne
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 7.8.1974
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan], Montpellier archive [Cote No. 103]
  • TitleLettre à Deligne, Giraud, Verdier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 23.6.1974
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 103]
  • Title: Letter to L. Breen
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 5.2.1975
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on topological algebra
  • Title: Letter to L. Breen
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 17.2.1975
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on topological algebra
  • Title: Letter to L. Breen
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 17/19.6.1975
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on topological algebra
  • TitleLetter à G. Pisier
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 22.7.1976
  • Published in: Lectures Grothendieckiennes. Spartacus, 2022. Ed. F. Jaëck.
  • Bibliographical data: [link]
  • TitleLettre à L. Illusie
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 3.4.1982
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Letter to D. Quillen
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 19.2.1983
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Notes: Letter on higher groupoids
  • Title: Brief an G. Faltings
  • Language: German
  • Written date: 27.6.1983
  • Published in: Geometric Galois Actions I: Around Grothendieck’s Esquisse d’un Programme. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series, vol. 242, Cambridge University Press
  • Bibliographical data: [Zbl], [pdf]
    • Translation: In the same series.
    • Original: [scan]
  • Notes: Letter on anabelian geometry
  • TitleLettre à L. Illusie
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 22.1.1983
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Notes: Letter on integration of homotopy types
  • TitleLetter to L. Bers
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 15.4.1984
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: Montpellier archive [Cote No. 67]
  • TitleBrief an V. Diekert
  • Language: German
  • Written date: 3.4.1984
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to P. Blass
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 8.7.1987
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data:
  • Title:Lettre à R. Thomason
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 2.4.1991
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Notes: Letter on the formalism of derivators
  • Title: Lettre à A. Y
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 24.6.1991
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre au Directeur de l’Institut Henri Poincaré
  • Language: French
  • Witten date: 2.5.1949
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre aux membres du comité scientifique IHES
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 25.5.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à Motchane
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 9.6.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à Motchane
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 9.6.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLettre à Motchane
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 9.4.1970
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Title: Lettre ouverte à Monsieur le Président de la République
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 7.2.1978
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to J. Milne
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 5.2.1986
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [link]
  • TitleLettre à Gonzales
  • Language: French
  • Written date: 2.6.1987
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • TitleLetter to Axler
  • Language: English
  • Date: 9.7.1988
  • Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer. Vol, 11. No. 1. 1989
  • Bibliographical data: [scan]
  • Reprint: Article. Le Monde du 4 mai 1988 [pdf]
  • TitleLetter to L. Barbieri Viale
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 24.6.1991
  • Unpublished
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Title: A. Grothendieck – J.-P. Serre correpondence
  • Language: English
  • Written Date: 1955–1987
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Title: A. Grothendieck – D. Mumford correpondence
  • Language: English
  • Written Date: 1958–1986
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]
  • Title: Correspondence A Grothendieck – R. Brown
  • Language: English
  • Written date: 1982–1991
  • Bibliographical data: [pdf]