Louis Nirenberg - The Abel Prize interview 2015

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/fe...

Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.
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