Interview with Max Karoubi

<p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Max' webpage: <a href="https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~max.karoubi/">https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~max.karoubi/</a></p> <p>Photo: from Max' webpage</p> <p><br></p> <p>0:00​ teaser</p> <p>0:43​ getting into math in Northern Africa</p> <p>5:33​ getting a family helped to do math</p> <p>9:12​ PhD under Cartan and Grothendieck</p> <p>13:05​ Grothendieck: naive genius&nbsp;</p> <p>16:53​ Karoubi as a name for math terminology</p> <p>19:18​ new foundations of hermitian K-theory</p> <p>22:20​ why write math in french</p> <p>26:33​ founding European Congress of Mathematics</p> <p>29:30​ collaborators are the best</p> <p>34:35​ the importance of teaching</p> <p>38:53​ why french people are arrogant</p> <p>42:26​ RIP good jobmarket times</p> <p>44:33​ how we can help math in developing countries&nbsp;</p> <p>46:44​ traveling to USSR in 1961</p> <p>48:58​ please don’t boycott ICM!</p> <p>51:35​ you cannot do math alone</p> <p>55:58​ wish for young mathematicians</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>