Math-Life Balance

Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan

January 23 · 49 min · 47.3 MB
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David Kazhdan:


Dennis Gaitsgory:


Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-proof-settles-geometric-langlands-conjecture-20240719/


Israel Gelfand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Gelfand

George Luszting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusztig

Vladimir Voevodsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voevodsky


0:00 intro

0:25 why math

5:35 student of Gelfand

11:04 Langlands program & motives & physics

14:35 math heroes

16:37 main interest in math

21:01 how about math puzzles

24:34 approaches to hard problems

27:30 negative emotions? introspection?

31:41 collaboration with Lusztig

36:20 thoughts on Voevodsky

41:02 impressions from conferences

45:23 Harvard in the good old days

48:25 family connections