Interview with Nick Katz (Princeton University)
Channel: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Date: 2018-06-28

Nick Katz is a mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He has visited IHES multiple times since 1968.

On the occasion of the conference "Arithmetic and Algebraic geometry", in honor of Ofer Gabber's 60th birthday organized in June 2018, he accepted to answer a few questions about his encounter with IHES and with algebraic geometry.

10:42 Historical correction: In fact, Poincare, then aged 26 (1880), was teaching analysis at the University of Caen. It was a geology summer excursion organized by the Ecole des Mines, of which Poincare was a graduate, and not military service, and it was stepping onto, not off, a bus, that the idea came to him.