Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
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if you know who this is this is the funniest fucking headline
Someone help me; I don't know who this is and don't know what to Google to decide if this is funny or not!
That is Alexander Grothendieck. He's involved with some abstract algebra I'm way to sober to grok rn. My only knowledge of him is that his stuff basically established category theory as a thing, although apparently that was completely unintentional on his end.
He seems to have been an... interesting character in his later years
Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup.
Thank you!
Okay yeah this is funny.