Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan

David Kazhdan:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kazhdan
• http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/

Dennis Gaitsgory:

• https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gaitsgory

Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-proof-settles-geometric-langlands-conjecture-20240719/

Israel Gelfand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Gelfand

George Luszting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusztig

Vladimir Voevodsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voevodsky

0:00 intro

0:25 why math

5:35 student of Gelfand

11:04 Langlands program & motives & physics

14:35 math heroes

16:37 main interest in math

21:01 how about math puzzles

24:34 approaches to hard problems

27:30 negative emotions? introspection?

31:41 collaboration with Lusztig

36:20 thoughts on Voevodsky

41:02 impressions from conferences

45:23 Harvard in the good old days

48:25 family connections