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Louis Nirenberg - The Abel Prize interview 2015

The Abel Prize 8,806 5 years ago
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0:00 Congratulations 0:12 Partial Differential Equations and application to geometry and physics 6:15 The beginnings of his mathematical life 9:19 Courant Institute, Kurt Friedrichs and the CUNY 16:10 Partial Differential Equations and Inequalities 20:03 the notion of pseudo-differential operators 23:38 Problems, Collaboration and “Sitzfleisch” 27:55 Communicating Mathematics 31:12 The international mathematical community: Traveling to the Soviet Union and China 36:36 Passions outside mathematics: movies and music Interview in written. Notices of the American Mathematical Society: https://www.ams.org/notices/200204/fea-nirenberg.pdf Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau. Produced by UniMedia

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