by Leila Schneps which appeared in 'Mathematical Intellegencer'. He was (and still is) one of our heros when we were sstudents in TIFR. Even though many of us were not working in Algebraic Geometry, we heard of him through C.P. Ramanujam and others. With his powers of abstraction, insistence on seeing things the right way and that theorems should fall out (more as a cocession to the rest of the mathematical world), there seemed to be no one like him before in mathematics. Leila captures this spirit, the creative processes of two geat mathematicians and thir interaction in this article which is readable to een those outside Algebraic Geometry or even mathematics. Wonderful review of a 'living mathematics book'.
P.S. An interesting collection of math, reviews here.
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