Alexander Grothendieck

Sources

Sources

The other works the book cites, by kind, each with the chapters that cite it; within each kind, the works cited in the most chapters come first.

Archives, letters and manuscripts7

  1. Maronne, Sébastien, and Bertrand Toën. Grothendieck mathématicien: Le temps des réflexions 1973–1991. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated by Philomène Longchamp. 2024. https://hal.science/hal-04901028.

    Cited in Chapters 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 68

  2. Laamri, El Haj. Alexander Grothendieck: période 1928–1956. HAL preprint hal-01314594. 2016. https://hal.science/hal-01314594.

    Cited in Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  3. Code de la propriété intellectuelle. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/texte_lc/LEGITEXT000006069414/.

    Cited in Chapters 67, 70, 72

  4. Herreman, Alain. Découvrir et transmettre: La dimension collective des mathématiques dans *Récoltes et Semailles* d’Alexandre Grothendieck. IHÉS preprint M/00/75. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 2000. https://archives.ihes.fr/document/M_00_75.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 38, 41

  5. “Note by the director of the La Guespy children’s home on Alexander Grothendieck.” n.d. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/alexguespy.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 9, 11

  6. Reichs- und Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz vom 22. Juli 1913, Reichsgesetzblatt 583 (1913).

    Cited in Chapter 6

  7. Yad Vashem. Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon. n.d. https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206403.pdf.

    Cited in Chapter 9

Books41

  1. Scharlau, Winfried. Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchy, Mathematics, Spirituality, Solitude. Part 3: Spirituality. Translated by Melissa Schneps. n.d. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/Spirituality/.

    Cited in Chapters 43, 44, 47, 48, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63

  2. Bibliothèque nationale de France. NAF 29093. Fonds Alexandre Grothendieck. n.d. https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc126317b.

    Cited in Chapters 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71

  3. Schneps, Leila, and Pierre Lochak, eds. Geometric Galois Actions 1: Around Grothendieck’s Esquisse d’un Programme. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 242. Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511758874.

    Cited in Chapters 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 61, 69

  4. Pessis, Céline. “Les années 1968 et la science: Survivre … et Vivre, des mathématiciens critiques à l’origine de l’écologisme.” Mémoire en sciences sociales, EHESS–Centre Alexandre Koyré, 2009. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/Pessis.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51

  5. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. Archives de l’IHÉS. Bures-sur-Yvette, n.d. https://archives.ihes.fr/.

    Cited in Chapters 29, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42

  6. Scharlau, Winfried. Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchy, Mathematics, Spirituality, Solitude. Part 1: Anarchy. Translated by Melissa Schneps. n.d. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/Scharlau/Anarchy.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  7. Survivre … et vivre. Paris, 1970–1975. https://science-societe.fr/survivre/.

    Cited in Chapters 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48

  8. The Stacks Project Authors. The Stacks Project. 2026. https://stacks.math.columbia.edu.

    Cited in Chapters 27, 28, 32, 33, 69, 72

  9. Illusie, Luc, ed. Cohomologie ℓ-adique et fonctions L (SGA 5). Lecture Notes in Mathematics 589. Springer, 1977. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0096802.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 34, 35, 36, 57

  10. Scharlau, Winfried. Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität, Einsamkeit. Teil 1: Anarchie. Books on Demand, 2011.

    Cited in Chapters 11, 12, 33, 35, 36

  11. Cartan, Henri, and Samuel Eilenberg. Homological Algebra. Princeton Mathematical Series 19. Princeton University Press, 1956.

    Cited in Chapters 20, 21, 22, 24

  12. Deligne, Pierre. Cohomologie étale (SGA 4½). Lecture Notes in Mathematics 569. Springer, 1977. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0091516.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 33, 34, 57

  13. Hartshorne, Robin. Residues and Duality: Lecture Notes of a Seminar on the Work of A. Grothendieck, Given at Harvard 1963/64. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 20. Springer, 1966. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0080482.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 34, 35, 36

  14. Heller, Alex. Homotopy Theories. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 383. American Mathematical Society, 1988.

    Cited in Chapters 57, 58, 59, 60

  15. Artin, Michael. Grothendieck Topologies: Notes on a Seminar. Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, 1962.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 33, 35

  16. Berliner Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1929. August Scherl, 1929. https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/metadata/34115495_1929/1/.

    Cited in Chapters 2, 4, 6

  17. Grothendieck, Hanka. Eine Frau. n.d. Unpublished autobiographical novel.

    Cited in Chapters 2, 4, 6

  18. Schneps, Leila, ed. Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait. International Press, 2014.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 33, 35

  19. Schneps, Leila, ed. The Grothendieck Theory of Dessins d’Enfants. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 200. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

    Cited in Chapters 55, 57, 61

  20. Archives départementales de la Lozère. Fonds relatifs au camp de Rieucros. n.d. https://camp-rieucros.com/bibliographie/.

    Cited in Chapters 8, 11

  21. Archives départementales du Tarn. Fonds relatifs au camp de Brens. n.d. https://camp-rieucros.com/bibliographie/.

    Cited in Chapters 8, 11

  22. Caramello, Olivia. Theories, Sites, Toposes: Relating and Studying Mathematical Theories Through Topos-Theoretic “Bridges”. Oxford University Press, 2018.

    Cited in Chapters 69, 72

  23. Cisinski, Denis-Charles. Les préfaisceaux comme modèles des types d’homotopie. Astérisque 308. Société Mathématique de France, 2006.

    Cited in Chapters 58, 59

  24. Deligne, Pierre, and Nicholas Katz, eds. Groupes de monodromie en géométrie algébrique (SGA 7 II). Lecture Notes in Mathematics 340. Springer, 1973. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0060505.

    Cited in Chapters 37, 41

  25. Hartshorne, Robin. Algebraic Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics 52. Springer, 1977. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3849-0.

    Cited in Chapters 32, 50

  26. Ladegaillerie, Yves. “Découpes et isotopies de surfaces topologiques.” Thèse de doctorat d’État, 1976.

    Cited in Chapters 49, 50

  27. Maltsiniotis, Georges. La théorie de l’homotopie de Grothendieck. Astérisque 301. Société Mathématique de France, 2005.

    Cited in Chapters 58, 59

  28. Milne, J. S. Étale Cohomology. Princeton Mathematical Series 33. Princeton University Press, 1980.

    Cited in Chapters 33, 34

  29. Schwartz, Laurent. Un mathématicien aux prises avec le siècle. Odile Jacob, 1997.

    Cited in Chapters 17, 18

  30. United Nations Archives Geneva. League of Nations, Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds). n.d. https://archives.ungeneva.org/refugees-mixed-archival-group-nansen-fonds.

    Cited in Chapters 5, 6

  31. Actes du Congrès international des mathématiciens (Moscou, 1966). Mir, 1968.

    Cited in Chapter 36

  32. Artin, Michael, and Barry Mazur. Étale Homotopy. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 100. Springer, 1969. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0080957.

    Cited in Chapter 33

  33. Aubin, David. “A Cultural History of Catastrophes and Chaos: Around the Institut Des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France, 1958–1980.” PhD diss., Princeton University, 1998.

    Cited in Chapter 40

  34. Cartan, Henri. Séminaire Henri Cartan, vol. 1 (1948–1949): Topologie algébrique. Secrétariat mathématique, 1949. https://www.numdam.org/issues/SHC_1948-1949__1_/.

    Cited in Chapter 16

  35. Curbera, Guillermo P. Mathematicians of the World, Unite! The International Congress of Mathematicians—A Human Endeavor. A K Peters, 2009.

    Cited in Chapter 36

  36. Hirzebruch, Friedrich. Neue topologische Methoden in der algebraischen Geometrie. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Neue Folge 9. Springer, 1956.

    Cited in Chapter 23

  37. Lurie, Jacob. Higher Topos Theory. Annals of Mathematics Studies 170. Princeton University Press, 2009.

    Cited in Chapter 69

  38. Messing, William. The Crystals Associated to Barsotti–Tate Groups: With Applications to Abelian Schemes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 264. Springer, 1972. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0058301.

    Cited in Chapter 47

  39. Pessis, Céline. Survivre et vivre: Critique de la science, naissance de l’écologie. Frankenstein. L’Échappée, 2014.

    Cited in Chapter 49

  40. Quillen, Daniel G. Homotopical Algebra. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 43. Springer-Verlag, 1967.

    Cited in Chapter 54

  41. Schwartz, Laurent. Séminaire Schwartz, année 1953/54: Produits tensoriels topologiques d’espaces vectoriels topologiques. Espaces vectoriels topologiques nucléaires. Applications. Secrétariat mathématique, 1954. https://www.numdam.org/actas/SLS/.

    Cited in Chapter 18

Articles, chapters and papers57

  1. Jackson, Allyn. “Comme Appelé Du Néant—As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck, Part I.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society, October 2004. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/allyn1.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 61, 62, 65, 66

  2. Serre, Jean-Pierre. “Faisceaux algébriques cohérents.” Annals of Mathematics 61, no. 2 (1955): 197–278. https://doi.org/10.2307/1969915.

    Cited in Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33

  3. Scharlau, Winfried. “Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?” Translated by D. Kotschick. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, September 2008. https://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 40, 42

  4. Artin, Michael, Allyn Jackson, David Mumford, and John Tate, eds. “Alexandre Grothendieck 1928–2014, Part 2.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 63, no. 4 (2016): 401–13. https://www.ams.org/notices/201604/.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 41, 42

  5. Deligne, Pierre. “La conjecture de Weil I.” Publications Mathématiques de l’IHÉS 43 (1974): 273–307. https://www.numdam.org/item/PMIHES_1974__43__273_0/.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 49, 50

  6. Jackson, Allyn. “Comme Appelé Du Néant—As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck, Part II.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society, November 2004. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/allyn2.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 33, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 61

  7. Serre, Jean-Pierre. “Géométrie algébrique et géométrie analytique.” Annales de l’Institut Fourier 6 (1956): 1–42. https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.59.

    Cited in Chapters 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 31, 33

  8. Artin, Michael, Allyn Jackson, David Mumford, and John Tate, eds. “Alexandre Grothendieck 1928–2014, Part 1.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 63, no. 3 (2016): 242–55. https://doi.org/10.1090/noti1336.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 41

  9. Cartier, Pierre. “A Mad Day’s Work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich—The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry.” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 38, no. 4 (2001): 389–408. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00913-2.

    Cited in Chapters 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42

  10. Chai, Ching-Li, and Frans Oort. “Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck.” Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians 5, no. 1 (2017). https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~chai/AG/ChaiFO9-AG.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 61

  11. CNRS Le Journal. Disparition d’un génie des mathématiques. 2014. https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/disparition-dun-genie-des-mathematiques.

    Cited in Chapters 6, 61, 65, 66, 67

  12. Dieudonné, Jean. “A. Grothendieck’s Early Work (1950–1960).” K-Theory 3, no. 4 (1989): 299–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00584523.

    Cited in Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 24

  13. Weibel, Charles A. “History of Homological Algebra.” In History of Topology, edited by I. M. James. Elsevier, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-044482375-5/50029-8.

    Cited in Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 24

  14. Borel, Armand, and Jean-Pierre Serre. “Le théorème de Riemann–Roch.” Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France 86 (1958): 97–136. https://doi.org/10.24033/bsmf.1500.

    Cited in Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24

  15. Hartemann, Aline, Sébastien Maronne, and Bertrand Toën. “Les mille et une pages de Grothendieck.” Chroniques de la BnF, 2025. https://www.bnf.fr/fr/les-mille-et-une-pages-de-grothendieck.

    Cited in Chapters 61, 67, 68, 72

  16. Lebesgue, Henri. “Intégrale, longueur, aire.” Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Serie III 7 (1902): 231–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02420592.

    Cited in Chapters 14, 15, 16, 18

  17. Barbieri Viale, Luca. “Alexander Grothendieck: Enthusiasm and Creativity.” In Mathematical Lives. Springer, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_25.

    Cited in Chapters 13, 15, 49

  18. Eilenberg, Samuel, and Saunders Mac Lane. “General Theory of Natural Equivalences.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 58 (1945): 231–94. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1945-0013131-6.

    Cited in Chapters 21, 22, 24

  19. Illusie, Luc, and et al. “Reminiscences of Grothendieck and His School.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 57, no. 9 (2010): 1106–15. https://www.ams.org/notices/201009/rtx100901106p.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 37, 38, 41

  20. Marquis, Jean-Pierre. “Category Theory.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/.

    Cited in Chapters 21, 22, 24

  21. Schapira, Pierre. “A Truncated Manuscript.” Inference, December 2022. https://inference-review.com/article/a-truncated-manuscript.

    Cited in Chapters 69, 70, 71

  22. Associated Press. “Alexander Grothendieck, Iconic Mathematician, Dies at Age 86.” CBS News, November 14, 2014. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-grothendieck-iconic-mathematician-dies-at-age-86/.

    Cited in Chapters 65, 66

  23. Belyi, G. V. “On Galois Extensions of a Maximal Cyclotomic Field.” Translated by N. Koblitz. Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya 14, no. 2 (1980): 247–56. https://doi.org/10.1070/IM1980v014n02ABEH001096.

    Cited in Chapters 52, 55

  24. Buchsbaum, David A. “Exact Categories and Duality.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 80 (1955): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1955-0074407-6.

    Cited in Chapters 20, 21

  25. Cartier, Pierre. “La folle journée, de Grothendieck à Connes et Kontsevich.” Publications Mathématiques de l’IHÉS S88 (1998): 23–42. https://www.numdam.org/item/PMIHES_1998__S88__23_0.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 49, 51

  26. Dwork, Bernard. “On the Rationality of the Zeta Function of an Algebraic Variety.” American Journal of Mathematics 82, no. 3 (1960): 631–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/2372974.

    Cited in Chapters 31, 34

  27. Jannsen, Uwe. “Motives, Numerical Equivalence, and Semi-Simplicity.” Inventiones Mathematicae 107 (1992): 447–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01231898.

    Cited in Chapters 38, 39

  28. Kleiman, Steven L. “Algebraic Cycles and the Weil Conjectures.” In Dix Exposés Sur La Cohomologie Des Schémas. Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics 3. North-Holland; Masson, 1968.

    Cited in Chapters 38, 39

  29. Ladegaillerie, Yves. “Classes d’isotopie de plongements de 1-complexes dans les surfaces.” Topology 23, no. 3 (1984): 303–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(84)90013-2.

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  30. Ladegaillerie, Yves. “Classification topologique des plongements des 1-complexes compacts dans les surfaces.” Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série A 279 (July 1974): 129–32.

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  31. Manin, Yuri I. “Correspondences, Motifs and Monoidal Transformations.” Mathematics of the USSR-Sbornik 6, no. 4 (1968): 439–70. https://doi.org/10.1070/SM1968v006n04ABEH001070.

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  32. McLarty, Colin. “The Rising Sea: Grothendieck on Simplicity and Generality.” In Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950), edited by Jeremy J. Gray and Karen Hunger Parshall. American Mathematical Society, 2007.

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  33. Mochizuki, Shinichi. “The Profinite Grothendieck Conjecture for Closed Hyperbolic Curves over Number Fields.” Journal of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo 3, no. 3 (1996): 571–627.

    Cited in Chapters 55, 57

  34. Schneps, Leila. “Grothendieck’s ‘Long March Through Galois Theory’.” In Geometric Galois Actions 1: Around Grothendieck’s Esquisse d’un Programme, edited by Leila Schneps and Pierre Lochak. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 242. Cambridge University Press, 1997. https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/SchnepsLM.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 52, 53

  35. Serre, Jean-Pierre. “Rapport au comité Fields sur les travaux de A. Grothendieck.” K-Theory 3, no. 3 (1989): 199–204. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00533369.

    Cited in Chapters 18, 37

  36. Tamagawa, Akio. “The Grothendieck Conjecture for Affine Curves.” Compositio Mathematica 109, no. 2 (1997): 135–94. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000114400142.

    Cited in Chapters 55, 57

  37. Tate, John. “Algebraic Cycles and Poles of Zeta Functions.” In Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, edited by O. F. G. Schilling. Harper & Row, 1965.

    Cited in Chapters 34, 35

  38. Toën, Bertrand. “Derived Algebraic Geometry.” EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences 1, no. 2 (2014): 153–240. https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1044.

    Cited in Chapters 69, 72

  39. Weber, Bruce, and Julie Rehmeyer. “Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86.” The New York Times, November 14, 2014. https://julierehmeyer.com/files/Alexander_Grothendieck_obituary_NYT.pdf.

    Cited in Chapters 65, 66

  40. Bordois, Valéry. “Anti-Nuclear Activist Circulations in 1970s Europe.” In Encyclopédie d’histoire Numérique de l’Europe (EHNE). Sorbonne Université. https://ehne.fr/en/encyclopedia/themes/ecology-and-environment/ideas-actors-and-political-practices/anti-nuclear-activist-circulations-in-1970s-europe.

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  41. Bresciani, Giulio. “Some Implications Between Grothendieck’s Anabelian Conjectures.” Algebraic Geometry 8 (2021): 231–67. https://doi.org/10.14231/AG-2021-005.

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  42. Cartier, Pierre. “A Country of Which Nothing Is Known but the Name: Grothendieck and ‘Motives’.” In Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait, edited by Leila Schneps. International Press, 2014. https://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/cartier.pdf.

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  43. Contou-Carrère, Carlos E. “Corps de classes local géométrique relatif.” Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences 292 (1981): 481–84.

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  44. Contou-Carrère, Carlos E. “Jacobiennes généralisées globales relatives.” In The Grothendieck Festschrift, vol. 2. Progress in Mathematics 87. Birkhäuser, 1990.

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  45. Contou-Carrère, Carlos E. “La jacobienne généralisée d’une courbe relative; construction et propriété universelle de factorisation.” Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série A 289 (July 1979): 203–6.

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  46. Deligne, Pierre. “Quelques idées maîtresses de l’œuvre de A. Grothendieck.” In Matériaux pour l’histoire des mathématiques au XXe siècle. Séminaires et Congrès 3. Société Mathématique de France, 1998.

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  47. Dieudonné, Jean, and Laurent Schwartz. “La dualité dans les espaces (F) et (LF).” Annales de l’Institut Fourier 1 (1949): 61–101. https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.8.

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  50. Groth, Moritz. “Derivators, Pointed Derivators and Stable Derivators.” Algebraic & Geometric Topology 13, no. 1 (2013): 313–74. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2013.13.313.

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  51. Illusie, Luc. “Déformations de groupes de Barsotti-Tate (d’après A. Grothendieck).” Astérisque 127 (1985): 151–98. https://www.numdam.org/item/AST_1985__127__151_0/.

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  53. Nicolas Bourbaki. “Sur certains espaces vectoriels topologiques.” Annales de l’Institut Fourier 2 (1950): 5–16. https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.16.

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  56. Weil, André. “Numbers of Solutions of Equations in Finite Fields.” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 55, no. 5 (1949): 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1949-09219-4.

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