A fascinating read about the fate of the work of a mind on the edge (from my Chinese military spy phone). I think he wouldn't approve of Huawei trying to use his research but perhaps there's no way to stop them. I wonder if there will be anything exploitable. www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?

In isolation, Alexander Grothendieck seemed to have lost touch with reality, but some say his metaphysical theories could contain wonders

Bloody hell those memoirs sound good. “ A reflection on his mathematical career, it was filled with stunning aphoristic insights, like the house metaphor. But, choked with David Foster Wallace-like footnotes, it was relentless and overwhelming, too…” Alas I will have to wait for a translation!