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by mattkrause 3306 days ago
Ouch! I suppose you're the guy who came up with title?

For me, the issue was that I didn't know what a "Grothendieck" was and the title doesn't give you any clues either; in fact it explicitly denies that any exist.

It also flouts the convention for fanciful non-fiction titles, which is something like "Clever-or-poetic-part: plain description." Something like "A country of which nothing is known but the name: Grothendieck and mathematical motivation" would be better, I think.

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> Ouch! I suppose you're the guy who came up with title?

Ouch! The only possible reason for defending it.