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I believe that Grothendieck always insisted on spelling his first name "Alexander" rather than the French "Alexandre." If this is true, as I believe it is, let's make an effort to respect his wish.

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Ok, we'll take your word for that and change the HN title.

Thanks, I checked the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck. It says in the first paragraph: 'He consistently spelt his first name "Alexander" rather than the French "Alexandre"', and they give a reference for that.

The french wikipedia says he cared a lot about the spelling "Alexander", but signed his french work as "Alexadre".

Interestingly, it seems that on what might be the last autographed document publicly available from him, he signed "Alexandre" and not "Alexander":

https://ztfnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/grothendiecks-de...

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