The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck.

The article discusses the life, works and contribution of Alexander Grothendieck in mathematics. Grothendieck is a man who changed mathematics within 20 years of work in functional analysis and algebraic geometry. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928 and became a political activist in all major European revolutions. He worked in functional analysis between 1950 and 1955, and posed many questions on the structure of topological linear locally convex spaces. Among his contributions to functional analysis include nuclear spaces, topological tensor products and Grothendieck inequality.