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I suspect Groethendieck was an alien.
For myself, I agree with Scott, I run into trouble without a ton of examples. You eventually get a feel for when the list of examples is "good enough" for the general case.
Was? He's (probably) alive, if hard to find.
We gave him honorary Terran status in 1957.