This talk, titled Allons-nous continuer la recherche scientifique? [Will we continue scientific research?] is rather different. It’s not a mathematics research talk, but a sociological one, based on Grothendieck’s marked shift in personal motivations. This talk survived as a scratchy audio recording, and I had no idea that it had been transcribed, let alone subsequently … Continue reading Transcription and translation of Grothendieck’s 1972 CERN talk
