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Jean-Pierre Serre: Mon premier demi-siècle au Collège de France

Jean-Pierre Serre: My First Fifty Years at the Collège de France

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Jean-Pierre Serre was interviewed by Marc Kirsch at the occasion of his first fifty years at Collège de France. He talks about his inaugural lecture, and why it was never written up; he recalls his experience with Bourbaki; he gives his views on the development of mathematics, as well as on other issues. The text is bilingual French-English.

Ce chapitre est une interview par Marc Kirsch. Publié précédemment dans Lettre du Collège de France, no 18 (déc. 2006). Reproduit avec autorisation.

This chapter is an interview by Marc Kirsch. Previously published in Lettre du Collège de France, no. 18 (déc. 2006). Reprinted with permission.

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Kirsch, M. (2010). Jean-Pierre Serre: Mon premier demi-siècle au Collège de France. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize. The Abel Prize. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01373-7_3

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