Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Yurii Nesterov, winner of ICM’s 2026 Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, stopped by the ICM studio to discuss how his pivotal work on Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient shaped the era of artificial intelligence. He shares thoughts on Ernest Ryu's AI-assisted proof of NAG, his book Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization, and advice for early career mathematicians.
Yurii Nesterov, winner of ICM’s 2026 Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, stopped by the ICM studio to discuss how his pivotal work on Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient shaped the era of artificial intelligence. He shares thoughts on Ernest Ryu's AI-assisted proof of NAG, his book Introductory Lectures on Convex Optimization, and advice for early career mathematicians.










