1. Alexander Grothendieck By: Alex

2. Short Biography  Born: March 28,1928  Birthplace: Berlin, Germany  Age Now: 86  Residence: France  Category: German mathematicians  Profession: mathematician  Awards Won: Fields Medal  Nationality: French  Parents: Sascha Schapiro (Dad)

3. Contributions to mathmatics  Algebraic Geometry Commutative algebra homological algebra sheaf theory category theory

4. What is all that Algebra?  Commutative algebra is the branch of algebra that studies commutative rings, their ideals, and modules over such rings Homological algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies homology in a general algebraic setting In mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking locally defined data attached to the open sets of a topological space. Category theory formalizes mathematical structure and its concepts in terms of a labeled directed graph called a category

5. Alexander Grothendieck

6. Where he was born  Berlin, Germany