Dennis Sullivan - the 2022 Abel Prize Laureate

A short film about the 2022 Abel Prize Laureate Dennis Sullivan.
Produced by: Ekaterina Eremenko / EEFilms

[@FLManhattan]

The filmmaker really did capture Prof Sullivan as I remember him. The Pythagorean Secret is finally revealed: in the 40 years since I have known Prof Sullivan, I did not know about the two-word phrase, "be interested."

[@md.nurealam6548]

"When you know a person's work, you know a lot about how they think"

[@mmmusa2576]

What an absolute mad lad!

[@mmmusa2576]

This is the most fun math related video I have seen in a long time and Dennis Sullivan is such a fun and interesting character! I hope future videos are made in this style.

[@gogigaga1677]

Righttttttt that was so funny . Wait Im giving a Lecture on Tables😭😂

[@mathematicsman7454]

My favourite dialogue: " ***When i get recognition in a feild, i Chang the feild*** "

[@MetaMaths]

Is the full documentary coming out ? I can watch 10 hours of this.

[@RobKingChess]

I had the pleasure of taking his course on Algebraic Topology and he was every bit as fun and interesting in that course as he is in this video.

[@gerardooleynick224]

dennis has no boundary

[@gogigaga1677]

Nice one

[@gerardooleynick224]

@@gogigaga1677 Thanks, workshopped it for a while

[@benjaminandersson2572]

hhahahahaha, this made me laugh.

[@jonathanwalther]

What a sweet plot. Congratulations to the laureate.

[@Kuse_]

He's like a main character in a movie. Such a wonderful personality!

[@sushobhanroy2396]

WOW! What a pleasantly flamboyant genius he is!

[@SadmanAhmedShanto]

Excellent videography!

[@brucewayne6611]

Who else spotted Jim Simons in his 2 second cameo?

[@HariKrishnan-wi4ls]

Someone I can wholeheartedly respect in the math world, not all that common I fear

[@vishalramadoss668]

amazing video ever

[@averagemathenjoyer3021]

Is that Jim Simons at 0:54?

[@zico739]

Yup.

[@ratandmonkey2982]

skin cancer?

[@supremespanker]

I am one of those crazy people Dennis replies to. Very slick short by the way.

[@simratjitsingh5048]

Just wow

[@wuru1730]

Brilliant.

[@sajadahmadrather6464]

Awesome.

[@siddharthshrivastava5823]

"The two words about the secret of life to be Happy ------> Be Interested"

[@gogigaga1677]

Best Short Video Yet😭😂

[@luigy0648]

the real goats of the world

[@zahidulislam2068]

..."Be interested"...! Yes. When you ARE interested and maintain being interested there is no chance being unhappy. In reverse, we are unhappy with or about something, when we lose interest in it. Proved! (Not mathematically, though🙂)

[@streetballgh]

I love this man😂❤

[@piyushdamor4826]

He is cool 😎

[@pritamacharya18]

0:54 you see Jim Simons from the Simons Foundation.

[@IsGoing]

I’m glad to know your history as a researcher, but can you please tell me your experience as a student? We’re you a genius at mathematics when you were a student and stand out on top of everyone else? I’m asking because professors nowadays have such expectation. Thanks

[@gogigaga1677]

2:22 UNDEFEATED STORY THAT WAS HILARIOUS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Robinson8491]

The boundary of a boundary is zero...what is the dimension/boundary of a hole in a 0-dimensional point? Serious question!

[@dadt8009]

The boundary has no boundary. What is outside this boundary?

[@digesh003]

Literally me (first 16 sec.)

[@gogigaga1677]

1:13 Do We think they achieved that on their First Take? 🤔😅🤣

[@scottychen2397]

Wow. One can actually tell from the ‘choppy’ way the water waves look compressed that he’s contemplating the upper half plane in poincare metric Where’s the circle? #Yummy

[@user-kz7vk3ez8r]

So lovely a mathematician 😂

[@jmguevarajordan]

Dr Sullivan is not a genius but he is a nice person and he does his math for pleasure. I glad he got the Abel's prize. I have seen some other mathematicians, Abel's prizers, and they seem a little bit arrogant or great achievers all their lifes. Dr Sullivan is not in that 'set'.

[@shrayanpramanik8985]

And tge mafia?

[@daubabylon]

The very first part demolish the belief that the best work in mathematics is done in groups or associations. Coming from Prof Sullivan is like a dogma.