>>512543639He had 5 children right, affairs with 2 women, 1 child through each affair and 3 through marriage
His life story is amazing. Running with a tuberculosis ridden mother throughout Europe during WW2, doing functional analysis until 30 when he decided to do algebra, and boy, he revolutionised algebraic geometry.
When reading Newton, Gauss, Serre or even the likes of Tao you think they are genius and brilliant, but still human. Only grothendieck makes you doubt his humanity . Some things he came up with shouldn't be possible for one man to do