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Professor Noga Alon (Shaw Prize 2022) discusses his career in Mathematics which has led to over 600 publications so far. Interview with University of Oxford mathematician Dr Tom Crawford recorded at the Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2023.
Noga begins with his recollection of being awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematics, and the recent award ceremony in Hong Kong. He then explains how the interdisciplinary nature of his work has led to over 600 publications, including work in Biology, Economics and Neuroscience. Noga also discusses how he decides which questions are worth his time, and some of the great unsolved problems he has thought about in the past (eg. Collatz, Goldbach, Riemann, P vs NP).
The second part of the video looks at some of his work in more detail, including his work on ‘necklace splitting’ and the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem which he covers in a recent Numberhpile video here: youtube.com/watch?v=rwiEiGqgetU
Finally, Noga shares a story from his childhood involving the Eurovision Song Contest which convinced him of the objectivity of the subject of Mathematics.
Links to Tom's other interviews with Laureates in Maths and Computer Science.
Robert Langlands: youtube.com/watch?v=XNh0cd09hxQ
Whitfield Diffie: youtube.com/watch?v=UaanzpCkc8c
Lesley Lamport: youtube.com/watch?v=DPVvReKyhmw
Alessio Figalli: youtube.com/watch?v=Oob466Ia9f4
Martin Hairer: youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XP3n-Sjiw
Michael Atiyah: youtube.com/watch?v=alujy8SVIDM
Daniel Spielman: youtu.be/SVfabuPRkYg
Efim Zlemanov: youtube.com/watch?v=Nz3_RzZzuO8
Steven Balbus: youtu.be/W1teZXKqdCw
Full list of publications by N. Alon: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nalon/PDFS/publications.html
Shaw Prize 2022 acceptance speech by Noga Alon: youtube.com/watch?v=bU7X9TI-cVg
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is Public Engagement Lead at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education: conted.ox.ac.uk
All video footage is shown under a fair use policy for educational purposes via a Creative Commons licence. The copyright remains the property of the owner of the footage.
For more maths content check out Tom's website tomrocksmaths.com
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With thanks to
Noga Alon
Hong Kong Laureate
The Shaw Prize
Numberphile
3Blue1Brown: youtube.com/watch?v=yuVqxCSsE7c
Eurovision Song Contest
Byle do Maja: youtube.com/watch?v=e-qliUeynjY
Filip Frantál: youtube.com/watch?v=KB4TL6gIJMc
Professor Noga Alon (Shaw Prize 2022) discusses his career in Mathematics which has led to over 600 publications so far. Interview with University of Oxford mathematician Dr Tom Crawford recorded at the Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2023.
Noga begins with his recollection of being awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematics, and the recent award ceremony in Hong Kong. He then explains how the interdisciplinary nature of his work has led to over 600 publications, including work in Biology, Economics and Neuroscience. Noga also discusses how he decides which questions are worth his time, and some of the great unsolved problems he has thought about in the past (eg. Collatz, Goldbach, Riemann, P vs NP).
The second part of the video looks at some of his work in more detail, including his work on ‘necklace splitting’ and the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem which he covers in a recent Numberhpile video here: youtube.com/watch?v=rwiEiGqgetU
Finally, Noga shares a story from his childhood involving the Eurovision Song Contest which convinced him of the objectivity of the subject of Mathematics.
Links to Tom's other interviews with Laureates in Maths and Computer Science.
Robert Langlands: youtube.com/watch?v=XNh0cd09hxQ
Whitfield Diffie: youtube.com/watch?v=UaanzpCkc8c
Lesley Lamport: youtube.com/watch?v=DPVvReKyhmw
Alessio Figalli: youtube.com/watch?v=Oob466Ia9f4
Martin Hairer: youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XP3n-Sjiw
Michael Atiyah: youtube.com/watch?v=alujy8SVIDM
Daniel Spielman: youtu.be/SVfabuPRkYg
Efim Zlemanov: youtube.com/watch?v=Nz3_RzZzuO8
Steven Balbus: youtu.be/W1teZXKqdCw
Full list of publications by N. Alon: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nalon/PDFS/publications.html
Shaw Prize 2022 acceptance speech by Noga Alon: youtube.com/watch?v=bU7X9TI-cVg
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is Public Engagement Lead at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education: conted.ox.ac.uk
All video footage is shown under a fair use policy for educational purposes via a Creative Commons licence. The copyright remains the property of the owner of the footage.
For more maths content check out Tom's website tomrocksmaths.com
You can also follow Tom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @tomrocksmaths.
facebook.com/tomrocksmaths
twitter.com/tomrocksmaths
instagram.com/tomrocksmaths
Get your Tom Rocks Maths merchandise here: beautifulequation.com/collections/tom-rocks-maths
With thanks to
Noga Alon
Hong Kong Laureate
The Shaw Prize
Numberphile
3Blue1Brown: youtube.com/watch?v=yuVqxCSsE7c
Eurovision Song Contest
Byle do Maja: youtube.com/watch?v=e-qliUeynjY
Filip Frantál: youtube.com/watch?v=KB4TL6gIJMc
