Pierre Deligne - The Abel Prize interview 2013

0:09 Plans for Abel Prize funds incl. to Higher School of Economics
3:26 Importance of awards, prizes
4:46 The value of the multi-faceted threads of the Abel Prize
5:10 Value of good high school teachers
5:27 Early mathematical life
6:39 Given Bourbaki's Set Theory to read as 14yo
8:41 Jacques Tits
9:20 Formal education
9:50 Mathematical experimentation at school
10:28 Value of geometry when learning esp. proof-making
12:14 Jacques Tits incl. story about an absence from class
13:10 Value of symmetry when proving
14:09 Jacques Tits
15:00 First mention of Grothendieck
15:40 Deligne's fields of study in laymen's terms: esp. Algebraic Geometry
21:47 Grothendieck: his kindness, asking "stupid" questions OK
25:10 Serre (comparisons with Grothendieck)
26:55 Weil Conjectures
30:45 Grothendieck's program as a hindrance to proving Weil's 3rd conjecture
32:27 G. filling the valley vs. D. building a suspension bridge
33:10 Reaction of Serre to Deligne's proof
33:51 Ideas for the proof (Lefschetz)
37:04 Liked proofs: mixed Hodge structures, using motives
39:12 Learning algebraic geometry harder (than other fields)
40:05 Langlands program
41:49 Ways of working; not much teaching, full-time researcher
42:18 Value of 1:1 teaching
43:11 Leaving IHES, moving to IAS; comparing institutions
45:30 Contact with Russian mathematics
46:12 Beautiful culture of Russian math.
46:56 State of Russian math. now
47:30 Stronger links between university and secondary education in Russia
49:17 Being first
50:00 Working style: big picture first, which tools
51:54 Guessing what is true, having pictures in mind
52:30 Thinking in pictures
54:19 The vallue of good conjectures or dreams valuable
55:39 Writing letters ("often a letter to myself")
58:09 Poincare moments?
59:06 Work style changed over time? imagination vs. technique
1:00:40 Significant work for the future for the profession
1:01:38 Better understanding of motives
1:02:09 Langlands program
1:02:20 Unexpected conjectures of physicists
1:04:00 Hodge Conjecture
1:04:44 Other interests: nature, must do some work, cycling
1:06:03 Building igloos
1:06:43 Story about making igloos as a child
Read the full interview in Notices of the American Mathematical Society: www.ams.org/notices/201402/rn...
The 2013 Abel Prize interview with Pierre Deligne
Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.
Produced by UniMedia.

[@gogigaga1677]

IMAGINE GOING TO SERRE CLASS IN THE MORNING AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE AND THEN GOING TO THE GROTHENDIECK SEMINAR AT THE IHES IN THE AFTERNOON THATS HOW THIS MAN WAS RAISED

[@keremkelleboz6959]

Serre class by day Grothendieck seminar by night babeeeyyy

[@gogigaga1677]

@@keremkelleboz6959 unfair buisness

[@siddhantritwick287]

This great human is so humble. It’s an honour to listen to him .

[@aminsellami5119]

To know the truth about this person, read the autobiography of his teacher, Alexander Grothendieck, "Harvest and Seeds"... You will conclude that he is nothing but a fraud who made fame through the efforts of others...

[@BlueSoulTiger]

01:20 plans for Abel Prize funds incl. to Higher School of Economics (Russia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSE_Faculty_of_Mathematics) 04:20 importance of awards, prizes 05:40 likes the multi-faceted threads of the Abel 06:04 value of good high school teachers 06:16 early mathematical life 08:04 given Bourbaki's Set Theory to read as 14yo 09:40 Jacques Tits 10:15 formal education 10:45 mathematical experimentation at school 11:25 value of geometry when learning esp. proof-making 13:06 Jacques Tits incl. story about an absence from class 14:10 value of symmetry when proving 15:00 Jacques Tits 15:55 first mention of Grothendieck 16:32 Deligne's fields of study in laymen's terms: esp. Algebraic Geometry 22:38 Grothendieck: his kindness, asking "stupid" questions OK 25:28 not allowed to make false statements 26:00 Serre (comparisons with Grothendieck) 27:47 Weil Conjectures 31:35 Grothendieck's program as a hindrance to proving Weil's 3rd conjecture 33:45 G. filling the valley vs. D. building a suspension bridge 34:00 reaction of Serre to Deligne's proof 34:41 ideas for the proof (Lefschetz) 37:55 liked proofs: mixed Hodge structures, using motives 39:40 same story in many languages 40:07 learning algebraic geometry harder (than other fields) 41:55 Langlands program 42:40 ways of working; not much teaching, full-time researcher 43:35 value of 1:1 teaching 44:00 leaving IHES, moving to IAS; comparing institutions 46:22 contact with Russian mathematics 47:10 beautiful culture of Russian math. 47:55 state of Russian math. now 48:30 stronger links between university and secondary education in Russia 50:06 being first 51:00 better are collaborations over long periods 51:51 working style: big picture first, which tools 52:20 guessing what is true, having pictures in mind 53:20 thinking in pictures 55:10 good pictures or dreams valuable 56:33 writing letters ("often a letter to myself") 58:58 Poincare moments? 59:57 work style changed over time? imagination vs. technique 1:01:30 significant work for the future for the profession 1:02:30 better understanding of motives 1:03:02 Langlands program 1:03:15 unexpected conjectures of physicists 1:04:50 Hodge Conjecture 1:05:40 other interests: nature, must do some work, cycling 1:06:54 building igloos 1:07:35 story about making igloos as a child

[@ManishKumar-hj3px]

nice

[@Living_for_Him_Alone]

❤ thank you for your work 🙂

[@STohme]

Un très grand mathématicien avec des qualités humaines à la hauteur de l'excellence de la personne.

[@snowy6011]

This is the interview of my life. I read this interveiw as an article in the Notices of AMS. The words 43:40 were so decisive. I decided to quit my job and go back to resarch. Thank you so much again for uploading. I am so happy to hear Dr. Deligne talking in his own words.

[@edwardjones2202]

Why these words had that impact?

[@primenumberbuster404]

@@edwardjones2202 The man has godly powers.

[@GordonBrevity]

Yeah, yeah.

[@odysseus231]

I love his Belgian accent in English 😍 What a great man. Thank you for this interview.

[@sudhirjain16]

Absolutely delightful and precious.

[@NothingMaster]

What else do you expect from someone who had Alexander Grothendieck as his Doctoral Advisor?!

[@aminsellami5119]

At the same time, Alexander Grothendieck mentioned him in his autobiography, "Harvest and Seeds"... and revealed his truth to the mathematical community.

[@gogigaga1677]

Grothendieck said in Récoltes et Semailles that Deligne was the most talented mathematician he ever the met but we also know what he says about him next anyway this is not the place for such things. Deligne is one of the Greats for sure

[@urbainvaes3959]

Great interview!

[@integrando1847]

algún día quisiera conocerlo gran maestro, quisiera ser algún día como tu, eres una inspiración para todos los que amamos las matematicas

[@eyesyc]

Wonderful human here

[@gaulindidier5995]

Love the beard! =)

[@z4961]

Should go to Zoghdan Mabkhout

[@ehfik]

"where is the 'ling" - now thats a great story

[@GordonBrevity]

Deligne clearly out of control here. Thuggish. Lethiferous. Interviewers lucky to escape.

[@tahamuhammad5962]

All mathematicians told that trisecting angles are impossible! I am Taha M. Muhammad telling "It is possible!". All can look at my trisecting invention "Taha's Geometry Theory" Step 1 - step 2- step 3. May be you have no idea about steps. Shortly, all of professors even honorable Einstein wanted to think to divide an angle directly into 3, but my theory is you are at ground level then think up tp one step on stairs, then go to and relax at step 3. KZbin is showing you how I trisect angles(above 0 to 360) degrees. Thank you for Universalities and math professionals who ignored my Qs and e-mails about trisecting. I thing may age is 76, poor, no job, and not famous then told "Who is this needs to trisect angles and Einstein did no do it!"

[@alvinbernstein1045]

Dear Sir. It has been proved algebraically that it is not possible via Galois theory. It is quite elementary and therefore also true (easy to check the proof). They did not answer your mails because of your background, but by the very fact that the trisection of angles is evidently not possible.

[@Karim-nq1be]

LOL 🤣