Interview with Max Karoubi from Math-Life Balance

Interview with Max Karoubi

56 minutes Posted May 5, 2021 at 3:21 pm.

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Max Karoubi is a Professor Emmeritus at the University of Paris 7, working in K-theory and algebraic topology. In this interview, Max shares warm memories about Grothendieck and the Bourbaki group, discusses math studies in Northern Africa and highly recommends doing research in collaborations.

Max' webpage: https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~max.karoubi/

Photo: from Max' webpage

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