John Nash - The Abel Prize interview 2015

[@aqrhodbfyiwcyrwo1853]

Prof. Nash, You was my mentor and life idol, and You always will be. The memory of You, Sir, will not be lost. R.I.P.

[@SohailSiadat]

He got killed 5 days later. This interview took place in Oslo on May 18, 2015, the day before the prize ceremony and only five days before the tragic accident that led to the death of John Nash and his wife Alicia.

[@BlueSoulTiger]

00:00 Introduction, reaction to the award 01:37 talent, encouragement, early years 03:12 E T Bell's Men of Mathematics 03:20 Princeton, atmosphere, competition 04:15 game theory, Nash (the game), games 06:06 equilibria in games, Fixed Point theorems 07:20 the Nobel, Beautiful Mind (film) 08:10 influence of Nash equilibrium, 1951 thesis 09:15 found the topic himself, 09:47 work habits, rarely attended lectures, N grade 11:05 learning second hand stifles creativity 11:45 contacting von Neumann, Einstein, Fixed Point theorems (Brouwer, Kakutani) 14:25 Einstein, photons being red-shifted, dark matter/energy, idea for a new type of space-time 17:09 John Milnor, seeking famous open problems 18:44 at MIT, 1951-59, Gromov on Nash's originality 20:30 M. Artin on Nash's paper on real algebraic manifolds, influence of spacetime, distribution of stars 23:18 Riemmanian manifolds as submanifolds of a Euclidean space 24:55 ingenuity of methods (Gromov, Conway) 25:26 motive for the work on embeddings, Nash embedding theorem 27:26 PDEs "proper", Nirenberg, di Giorgi 29;21 Hamilton, Perelman, entropy (in parabolic case) 30:07 di Giorgi getting there first 30:45 Fields Medal speculation 31:10 "but this is not mathematics" 31:36 Riemann Hypothesis, mental exhaustion, "problems can attack back" 33:00 Selberg, finite measure of zeroes on the line 34:30 different approach to math., inspiration 35:30 classical music, Bach 36:13 thinking "normally","it wouldn't be good to think like a good student", "most mathematical theses are routine"

[@SohailSiadat]

I with there was a transcription of this. It is hardly audible. Update: found the transcription: www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201605/rnoti-p486.pdf

[@strayravenouscat3378]

thank you for this - much appreciated 😊

[@chakreshsingh]

Princeton was competitive because Nash was there.

[@douglasgoldfarb3421]

Can we have artificial intelligence protype of john nash jr

[@douglasgoldfarb3421]

With secure Parameters and classified knowledge

[@AmyAmy-er8bp]

Urts tea. #heroine