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The Book Review by Darren Glass published in "MAA Review" on 2010/10/21 mentioned:
These papers in Volume II, along with those collected in Volume I make up Mumford's body of work in pure mathematics before he switched research areas...They [The letters between Grothendieck and Mumford] give interesting insights into the algebraic geometry that was done in the second half of the twentieth century as well as into the people who did it, and I had a hard time putting this part of the book down.
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Excerpts from a review by Frans Oort, published in the Notice of the American Mathematical Society in Feb. 2013:
Just sit down with this volume and be overwhelmed by ideas from, say, fifty years ago, still new and inspiring now. Read through the paper [61a] "The topology of normal singularities ..." or [65d] "Picard groups of moduli problems", just to mention two of the papers featured here, and you see the fresh look, the pwoerful approach, and the inspiration communicated to the reader. ...The stimulating diference between these two giants, Grothendieck and Mumford, their insight, and the respect they had for each other are a source of rich ideas. What a privilege ... to be able to enjoy the exchange of their ideas, surviving in (part of) their correspondence, ....
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