Interesting article about the bizarre life of mathematician Alexander Grothendeik
the #wikipedia article about #grothendieck is also wild:
1. he briefly intended to assassinate #hitler
2. his offer from #harvard fell through because he wouldn't sign a pledge promising not to overthrow the US government.
3. To protest against the Vietnam War, he gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed
4. in a letter declining the caraford prize he predicted the collapse of civilization by 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck?wprov=sfla1