Interview with Max Karoubi

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Max Karoubi is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 7, working in K-theory and algebraic topology. In this interview, Max shares warm memories about Grothendieck and the Bourbaki group, discusses math studies in Northern Africa and highly recommends doing research in collaborations. • Max' webpage: https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~max.karo... • Photo: from Max' webpage • Channel podcast: https://anchor.fm/math-life-balance • #mathematician #mathlife #interview #research • #Grothendieck #Bourbaki #ICM #ENS • 0:00 teaser • 0:43 getting into math in Northern Africa • 5:33 getting a family helped to do math • 9:12 PhD under Cartan and Grothendieck • 13:05 Grothendieck: naive genius • 16:53 Karoubi as a name for math terminology • 19:18 new foundations of hermitian K-theory • 22:20 why write math in french • 26:33 founding European Congress of Mathematics • 29:30 collaborators are the best • 34:35 the importance of teaching • 38:53 why french people are arrogant • 42:26 RIP good jobmarket times • 44:33 how we can help math in developing countries • 46:44 traveling to USSR in 1961 • 48:58 please don’t boycott ICM! • 51:35 you cannot do math alone • 55:58 wish for young mathematicians

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