The Mathematician with 600 Publications - Noga Alon (2022 Shaw Prize)

Video Description

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: https://www.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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNh0cd09hxQ Whitfield Diffie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaanzpCkc8c Lesley Lamport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVvReKyhmw Alessio Figalli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oob466Ia9f4 Martin Hairer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XP3n-Sjiw Michael Atiyah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alujy8SVIDM Daniel Spielman: https://youtu.be/SVfabuPRkYg Efim Zlemanov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz3_RzZzuO8 Steven Balbus: https://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: https://www.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: https://www.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 https://tomrocksmaths.com/ You can also follow Tom on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @tomrocksmaths. https://www.facebook.com/tomrocksmaths/ https://twitter.com/tomrocksmaths https://www.instagram.com/tomrocksmaths/ Get your Tom Rocks Maths merchandise here: https://www.beautifulequation.com/collections/tom-rocks-maths With thanks to Noga Alon Hong Kong Laureate The Shaw Prize Numberphile 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVqxCSsE7c Eurovision Song Contest Byle do Maja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-qliUeynjY Filip Frantál: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4TL6gIJMc