Dennis Gaitsgory and Mura interview David Kazhdan

David Kazhdan:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kazhdanhttp://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kazhdan/Dennis Gaitsgory:https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_GaitsgoryQuanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-proof-settles-geometric-langlands-conjecture-20240719/Israel Gelfand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_GelfandGeorge Luszting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_LusztigVladimir Voevodsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voevodsky0:00 intro0:25 why math5:35 student of Gelfand11:04 Langlands program & motives & physics14:35 math heroes16:37 main interest in math21:01 how about math puzzles24:34 approaches to hard problems27:30 negative emotions? introspection?31:41 collaboration with Lusztig36:20 thoughts on Voevodsky41:02 impressions from conferences45:23 Harvard in the good old days48:25 family connections