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:    • Necklace Splitting (a lesson for jewe...  

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.

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Martin Hairer:    • Playing Tetris with Martin Hairer (Fi...  
Michael Atiyah:    • Sir Michael Atiyah and his Love of Maths  
Daniel Spielman:    • Solving the Hardest Problems with Dan...  
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Full list of publications by N. Alon: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nalon...

Shaw Prize 2022 acceptance speech by Noga Alon:    • The Shaw Prize Award Ceremony 2022 - ...  

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/

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With thanks to
Noga Alon
Hong Kong Laureate
The Shaw Prize
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