00:15 from Hungary to Los Alamos 03:00 shock limits: the role of collaboration 04:22 interaction of solitons: discovered by numerical means 10:35 genesis of Fourier integral operators 12:00 Ralph Phillips, scattering theory 14:45 Riemann Hypothesis 15:40 beauty vs. ugliness in math. 16:15 doesn't get angry easily 17:32 G.H. Hardy, his Apology, Aston's response 18:42 pure math. as a branch of applied math. (Joe Keller) 20:00 pure math. having applied uses inevitable? 22:13 math. has a mysterious unity 22:40 high-speed computing 25:12 emergence of new algorithms in linear algebra 26:08 high-speed due to computer hardware and to improved algorithms 26:30 takes mathematicians to create clever algorithms 27:20 use of theory of non-linear PDEs in oil exploration 27:43 inverse problems 28:44 mathematics education in Hungary 30:00 problem-solving as the Royal road to stimulate talent 30:27 need to branch out also 30:39 Pólya 31:20 tradition in Hungary to find the simplest proofs, Erdős' Book 32:00 Hahn-Banach theorem is out of The Book 32:52 culture of excellence in Hungarian math. 33:34 book by John Lukacs 34:46 influence of Julius König 36:02 Fejér (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%C3%B3t_Fej%C3%A9r) 37:18 Ulam 37:56 atomic bombs, war in the Pacific 39:33 innoculation effect of atomic bombs 39:59 Ulam on how blackboard scribbles changing world history 40:18 Ulam as an ideas man 41:15 the Courant Institute 41:45 Courant's personality, suspicion of specialisation 44:14 collaborating , Vera John-Steiner book 45:20 personal work style 45:45 Phillips thought Lax lazy 46:15 sudden inspiration 46:50 stories from Schottke, Hilbert ("my very bad memory") 48:05 has good memory 48:15 important decisions for large organisations 49:00 director of The Courant Institute 49:35 blocked formation of department of Informatics 50:30 successful hirees 50:55 failures: standard of hiring (in computer science) 51:52 National Science Board, policy-making as nodding yes 52:30 the Lax Panel, supercomputers 54:25 paraphrasing Emerson: nothing can resist the force of an idea, 10 yrs overdue 54:50 teaching calculus 55:20 calculus book enormously unsuccessful despite good ideas 56:00 dreams of rewriting book 56:10 the calculus reform movement, doubts 56:28 the books are too thick 57:00 uniform continuity vs. continuity at a point 57:32 math. community enormously conservative 57:45 applications as subsidiary, should be featured 58:20 looking for good collaborator 58:40 work in the pipeline 59:20 what are the real numbers (not Dedekind's so much) 1:00:00 other interests (Hungarian, English poetry; tennis; reading) 1:01:15 writing obituaries, haikus
00:15 from Hungary to Los Alamos
03:00 shock limits: the role of collaboration
04:22 interaction of solitons: discovered by numerical means
10:35 genesis of Fourier integral operators
12:00 Ralph Phillips, scattering theory
14:45 Riemann Hypothesis
15:40 beauty vs. ugliness in math.
16:15 doesn't get angry easily
17:32 G.H. Hardy, his Apology, Aston's response
18:42 pure math. as a branch of applied math. (Joe Keller)
20:00 pure math. having applied uses inevitable?
22:13 math. has a mysterious unity
22:40 high-speed computing
25:12 emergence of new algorithms in linear algebra
26:08 high-speed due to computer hardware and to improved algorithms
26:30 takes mathematicians to create clever algorithms
27:20 use of theory of non-linear PDEs in oil exploration
27:43 inverse problems
28:44 mathematics education in Hungary
30:00 problem-solving as the Royal road to stimulate talent
30:27 need to branch out also
30:39 Pólya
31:20 tradition in Hungary to find the simplest proofs, Erdős' Book
32:00 Hahn-Banach theorem is out of The Book
32:52 culture of excellence in Hungarian math.
33:34 book by John Lukacs
34:46 influence of Julius König
36:02 Fejér (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%C3%B3t_Fej%C3%A9r)
37:18 Ulam
37:56 atomic bombs, war in the Pacific
39:33 innoculation effect of atomic bombs
39:59 Ulam on how blackboard scribbles changing world history
40:18 Ulam as an ideas man
41:15 the Courant Institute
41:45 Courant's personality, suspicion of specialisation
44:14 collaborating , Vera John-Steiner book
45:20 personal work style
45:45 Phillips thought Lax lazy
46:15 sudden inspiration
46:50 stories from Schottke, Hilbert ("my very bad memory")
48:05 has good memory
48:15 important decisions for large organisations
49:00 director of The Courant Institute
49:35 blocked formation of department of Informatics
50:30 successful hirees
50:55 failures: standard of hiring (in computer science)
51:52 National Science Board, policy-making as nodding yes
52:30 the Lax Panel, supercomputers
54:25 paraphrasing Emerson: nothing can resist the force of an idea, 10 yrs overdue
54:50 teaching calculus
55:20 calculus book enormously unsuccessful despite good ideas
56:00 dreams of rewriting book
56:10 the calculus reform movement, doubts
56:28 the books are too thick
57:00 uniform continuity vs. continuity at a point
57:32 math. community enormously conservative
57:45 applications as subsidiary, should be featured
58:20 looking for good collaborator
58:40 work in the pipeline
59:20 what are the real numbers (not Dedekind's so much)
1:00:00 other interests (Hungarian, English poetry; tennis; reading)
1:01:15 writing obituaries, haikus
since discovered: www.ams.org/notices/200602/comm-lax.pdf
such an interesting story. excellent interview, thank you.
So inspiring...
Excuse me, there is typo in description in video. One additional space before comma in "Collaborating , Vera John-Steiner book".
The typo is corrected. Thank you Kamil.