MIT Professor George Lusztig (2014 Shaw Prize) discusses his career in mathematics with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford. Recorded at the 2023 Hong Kong Laureate Forum.

*CORRECTION: the image at 8:55 is Serge Lang, when George is in fact talking about Jean-Pierre Serre.

George begins with his early career in Romania, before a chance meeting with Isadore Singer - and the invitation to Oxford that followed - changed his life. Whilst there, George worked with Singer and Michael Atiyah, following the latter to Princeton as his graduate student.

Full list of publications by George Lusztig: https://math.mit.edu/~gyuri/pub.html

Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem: Atiyah, Michael F.; Singer, Isadore M. (1963), "The Index of Elliptic Operators on Compact Manifolds", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 69 (3): 422–433, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1963-10957-X

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With thanks to
George Lusztig
Hong Kong Laureate Forum
The Shaw Prize
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