Interview with Louis Nirenberg

摘要

Raussen and Skau: Firstly, we want to congratulate you on being awarded (with Professor Nash) the Abel Prize for 2015. You will receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty the King of Norway in a ceremony tomorrow. Your first important achievement in mathematics was solving the so-called Weyl problem in your PhD thesis. Could you tell us what the Weyl problem is about?