Alexander Grothendieck's sixtieth birthday and originally published in 1990. The articles were offered as a tribute to one of the world's greatest living mathematicians. Many of the groundbreaking contributions in these volumes contain material that is now considered foundational to the subject. Topics addressed by these top-notch contributors match the breadth of Grothendieck's own interests, including: functional analysis, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, number theory, representation theory, K-theory, category theory, and homological algebra.CONTRIBUTORS to Volume I: A. Altman; M. Artin; V. Balaji; A. Beauville; A.A. Beilinson; P. Berthelot; J.-M. Bismut; S. Bloch; L. Breen; J.-L. Brylinski; J. Dieudonne; H. Gillet; A.B. Goncharov; K. Kato; S. Kleiman; W. Messing; V.V. Schechtman; C.S. Seshadri; C. Soule; J. Tate; M. van den Bergh; and A.N. Varchenko.