The Unravelers

Dars /, Jean-Francois; Lesne /, Annick; Papillault /, Anne

Prologue -- Michael Atiyah – Dreams -- Interval -- Alain Connes – Pitiless Reality -- Dirk Kreimer – From Tasmania with Love -- Karen Yeats – Puzzles -- Paulo Almeida – Structured Fury -- Ngô Bao Châu – A Tartar Desert -- Paul-Olivier Dehaye – Exoticism -- Entr’acte -- Sophie de Buyl – Curiosity -- Th ibault Damour – Th e Paving Stones of the Route de Charres -- Pause -- Cécile DeWitt – From 1948 to the Present Day -- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat – Knowing, Understanding, Discovering -- Arndt Benecke – Farewell to Alexander’s Sword -- Interlude -- Annick Lesne – Dialogue on the Scales of Life -- Teatime -- Nikita Nekrasov – Lost in Translation -- Yiannis Vlassopoulos – Th ought Technology: Th e Pursuit of Structure -- Ivan Todorov – Mathematical Physics -- Anna Wienhard – In Praise of Tautology -- Giovanni Landi – New Worlds -- Pierre Deligne – Th e Music Pavilion -- Claire Voisin – Long Live the Whale -- Jean-Marc Deshouillers – What Does One Write on It? -- Pierre Cartier – Solidarity -- Ali Chamseddine – North-South -- Christophe Breuil – Privilege -- Laurent Berger – What Do Mathematicians Do? -- Matilde Lalin – Fractalitas -- Jürgen Jost – Mathematics, Biology and Neurobiology -- Henry Tuckwell – Mathematics in the Biological Sciences -- Intermezzo -- Katia Consani – The Unravelers -- Oscar Lanford – Long Live the Machine -- Jürg Fröhlich – Arriving in Paradise -- Sylvie Paycha – Go to the Board! -- Dennis Sullivan – Lunch at IHES (1975–1995) -- Jacques Tits – Happy Day at Bures-sur-Yvette in the Sixties -- Wendy Lowen – Th e Flowers of Maths -- Michael Berry – Th e Arcane in the Mundane -- Nathalie Deruelle – Allegory -- Coff ee break -- Minoru Wakimoto – Correspondence -- Victor Kac – Ilan -- Mikhaïl Gromov – Th e Four Mysteries of the World -- Étienne Ghys – Flashes -- David Eisenbud – State of Grace -- Christophe Soulé – Violins -- Matilde Marcolli – Mathematics as Culture and Knowledge -- Alessandra Carbone – A Question of Time -- Jean-François Méla – “Th e Times, Th ey Are A-changing” -- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon – Th e Vision -- Denis Auroux – Taming Mathematics -- Alexandr Usnich – Th ree Lights -- Maxim Kontsevitch – Beyond Numbers -- Photographs -- Th ank You for Everything -- Index.