Contents
Prologue / vii
Michael Atiyah - Dreams / 1
Interval / 2
Alain Connes - Pitiless Reality / 3
Dirk Kreimer - From Tasmania with Love / 15
Karen Yeats - Puzzles / 19
Paulo Almeida - Structured Fury / 21
Ngô Bao Châu - A Tartar Desert / 24
Paul-Oliver Dehaye - Exoticism / 28
Entr'acte / 30
Sophie de Buyl - Curiosity / 36
Thibault Damour - The Paving Stones of the Route de Charres / 39
Pause / 42
Cécile DeWitt - From 1948 to the Present Day / 43
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat - Knowing, Understanding, Discovering / 47
Arndt Benecke - Farewell to Alexander's Sword / 51
Interlude / 53
Annick Lesne - Dialogue on the Scales of Life / 54
Teatime / 58
Nikita Nekrasov - Lost in Translation / 60
Yiannis Vlassopoulos - Thought Technology: The Pursuit of Structure / 68
Ivan Todorov - Mathematical Physics / 72
Anna Wienhard - In Praise of Tautology / 74
Giovanni Landi - New Worlds / 75
Pierre Deligne - The Music Pavilion / 77
Claire Voisin - Long Live the Whale / 79
Jean-Marc Deshouillers - What Does One Write on It? / 80
Pierre Cartier - Solidarity / 84
Ali Chamseddine - North-South / 91
Christophe Breuil - Privilege / 93
Laurent Berger - What Do Mathematicians Do? / 96
Matilde Lalin - Fractalitas / 100
Jürgen Jost - Mathematics, Biology and Neurobiology / 102
Henry Tuckwell - Mathematics in the Biological Sciences / 104
Intermezzo / 107
Katia Consani - The Unravelers / 108
Oscar Lanford - Long Live the Machine / 111
Jürgen Frölich - Arriving in Paradise / 114
Sylvie Paycha - Go to the Board! / 120
Dennis Sullivan - Lunch at IHES (1975-1995) / 122
Jacques Tits - Happy Day at Bures-sur-Yvette in the Sixties / 124
Wendy Lowen - The Flowers of Maths / 127
Michael Berry - The Arcane in the Mundane / 129
Nathalie Deruelle - Allegory / 130
Coffee break / 132
Minoru Wakimoto - Correspondence / 140
Victor Kac - Ilan / 145
Mikhail Gromov - The Four Mysteries of the World / 148
Étienne Ghys - Flashes / 152
David Eisenbud - State of Grace / 157
Christophe Soulé - Violins / 159
Matilde Marcolli - Mathematics as Culture and Knowledge / 160
Alessandra Carbone - A Question of Time / 165
Jean-François Méla - "The Times, They Are A-changing" / 168
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon - The Vision / 170
Denis Auroux - Taming Mathematics / 174
Alexandr Usnich - Three Lights / 177
Maxim Kontsevitch - Beyond Numbers / 180
Photographs / 185
Thank You for Everything / 196
Index / 197
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