© Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie/CNRS Audiovisuel 1999

Live from Berlin

Reference

378

Duration

00:27:00

Production year

1999

Versions

Original material

Procédés audiovisuels

SD
4/3
Color
Sound

Summary

A report from the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians, held August 18-27 1998 in Berlin.Four Fields medals were awarded, to Richard E. Borcherds and Timothy Gowers (Cambridge University), Maxim Kontsevich (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), and Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University). Interviews with the mathematicians provide an overview of the current state of mathematical research, addressing the relations between mathematics and physics, the Moscow school of mathematics, etc.

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