Récoltes et Semailles, Réflexions et témoignages sur un passé de mathématicien (1985-86) -- A many volume partly autobiographical memoir describing Grothendieck's life as a mathematician.
- A 929-page file containing the entire text of
Récoltes et Semailles in the original French.
Récoltes et Semailles in pdf No longer available online by request of Grothendieck's family - Promenade à travers une oeuvre
- Russian translation of the first few parts of Récoltes et Semailles, by Y. Fridman and M. Finkelberg
- Some fragments of Récoltes et Semailles in English along with many other texts by Roy Lisker at his Ferment Magazine website
- The website of Juan A. Navarro González contains a translation of some portions in Spanish as well as scans of parts of Récoltes et Semailles
La Clef des Songes - ou Dialogue avec le Bon Dieu -- This book in French (6 chapters, 315 pages, plus hundreds of pages of added notes) describes Grothendieck's arrival at the conviction of the existence of God, through his discovery of the meaning and significance of dreams. It also contains a wealth of personal biographical details on his early childhood, on the period spent in a French internment camp for undesirables during World War II and then in the Protestant foyer for Jewish children in Le Chambon sur Lignon, and on his parents.
The text of La Clef des Songes is not available online by request of Grothendieck's family
Table of contents
and chapters I,II,III (136 pages),
Chapters
IV and V (132 pages),
Chapter
VI (47 pages)
Notes to La Clef des Songes (in particular the large section called
Les Mutants)
A four-page summary of La Clef des Songes
Departure from IHES- Short passage from the Clef des Songes concerning Grothendieck's departure from the IHES in 1970
Die Mutanten, a 34-page essay by W. Scharlau, in German except for the introduction, about one section of La Clef des Songes, called Les Mutants, discussing 18 individuals who according to Grothendieck were far ahead of their time.
Spanish translation of about 20 pages of Grothendieck's 650 pages of Notes to La Clef des Songes.
Letters
Crafoord Prize- Letter to journals and newspapers on the
refusal of the Crafoord Prize
A letter on physics to A.Y. -- dating from June 24, 1991 (two months
before Grothendieck's disappearance).
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P. 11
The A.Y. letter typed
A letter to Luca
Barbieri Viale
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P. 6
A letter to Juan Navarro Gonzalez about Récoltes et Semailles
