John Nash - The Abel Prize interview 2015

0:00 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"

Interview in written. Notices of the American Mathematical Society:

Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.
Produced by UniMedia

[aqrhodbfyiwcyrwo]

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"

[chakreshsingh]

Princeton was competitive because Nash was there.

[SohailSiadat]

I with there was a transcription of this. It is hardly audible.

[AleckMapp]

Anything can go
wrong with the brain
when there is mental
exhaustion...

[douglasgoldfarb]

Can we have artificial intelligence protype of john nash jr

[douglasgoldfarb]

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