Born 28-Mar-1928 (Berlin, Germany), died 13-Nov-2014 (Saint-Lizier, France).

In my own studies, I have occasionally encountered the famous name of Grothendieck in lectures about functional analysis and logic. From a bit later, I remember discussions with Helmut Schwichtenberg about Tarski-Grothendieck set theory as the foundation of the formal mathematical language of Mizar.

In 2010, I came again across the name of Alexander Grothendieck several times, when searching the web about my new hometown Bures-sur-Yvette, where I lived until August 2014 only a few hundred meters from the famous IHÉS institute. That was the place where Grothendieck worked for some time at the peak of his mathematical life (until 1970). Afterwards he removed himself more and more from public and scientific life.

Winfried Scharlau has started to publish material about the life of Grothendieck some years ago, with this notable article from 2006/2008. There was also some activity on the web to collect more information, but this was stopped abruptly in 2010 with this angry letter from Grothendieck himself, speaking to the world from a secret place in the Pyrenees.

At least we now know that his last residence was in Lasserre (l’Ariège); see also this article of La Depeche.

Here is another blog with many more links.