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- Pursuing Stacks (French: À la Poursuite des Champs) is an influential 1983 mathematical manuscript by Alexander Grothendieck. It consists of a 12-page letter to Daniel Quillen followed by about 600 pages of research notes. The topic of the work is a generalized homotopy theory using higher category theory. The word "stacks" in the title refers to what are nowadays usually called "∞-groupoids", one possible definition of which Grothendieck sketches in his manuscript. (The stacks of algebraic geometry, which also go back to Grothendieck, are not the focus of this manuscript.) Among the concepts introduced in the work are derivators and test categories. Some parts of the manuscript were later developed in: * Georges Maltsiniotis (2005), "La théorie de l'homotopie de Grothendieck" [Grothendieck's homotopy theory] (PDF), Astérisque, 301, MR 2200690 * Denis-Charles Cisinski (2006), "Les préfaisceaux comme modèles des types d'homotopie" [Presheaves as models for homotopy types] (PDF), Astérisque, 308, ISBN 978-2-85629-225-9, MR 2294028 (en)