Mathematical Life in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- English version of a text authored by Grothendieck after his visit to Vietnam in 1967.
Récoltes et Semailles, Réflexions et témoignages sur un passé de mathématicien (1985-86) -- A many-volume mostly autobiographical memoir in French describing Grothendieck's life as a mathematician.
- Récoltes et Semailles in pdf -- a typed file by a volunteer containing most of the text of Récoltes et Semailles in the original French (but not the Doors onto the Universe or the complements from 1986).
- Promenade à travers une oeuvre
- Russian translation of Part 0 of Récoltes et Semailles, by Y. Fridman and M. Finkelberg Part 0 (a) Part 0 (b)
- Russian translation of Part 1 of Récoltes et Semailles, by Y. Fridman and M. Finkelberg Part 1 (a) Part 1 (b) Part 1 (c)
- Corrections to Récoltes et Semailles -- a set of numerous additions and footnotes added by Grothendieck in 1986 to the manuscript of Récoltes et Semailles as a consequence of an extensive correspondence with Pierre Schapira and Christian Houzel.
- Roy Lisker's very free translation fragments from Récoltes et Semailles in English along with many other texts by Roy at his Ferment Magazine website
- Scan of the original typescript of the first part 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.
La Clef des Songes
Chapters I, II and III (136 pages)
Chapters IV and V (132 pages)
Chapter VI (47 pages)
Les Mutants, a 696-page pdf file of Notes to La Clef des Songes
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.
Some Letters
A letter to Juan Navarro Gonzalez about Récoltes et Semailles, dated June 2, 1987 Gonzalez letter
An open letter dated July 9, 1988, explaining Grothendieck's refusal
of the Crafoord Prize Crafoord Prize letter
A letter on physics to A.Y. dated June 24, 1991 (two months
before Grothendieck's disappearance). --
typed version
P. 1
P. 2
P. 3
P. 4
P. 5
P. 6
P. 7
P. 8
P. 9
P. 10
P. 11
A letter to Luca Barbieri Viale also dated June 24, 1991 --
P. 1
P. 2
P. 3
P. 4
P. 5
P. 6
