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Sergiu Klainerman

Sergiu Klainerman is Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and an adjunct senior research scientist at Columbia University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences. He serves as editor of the journal Annals of Mathematics and has been a winner of Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Sloan Fellowships.

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Mathematics Reflections on an Essay by Wigner [long_description] Eugene Wigner famously pondered why so many mathematical concepts turn out to play such a fundamental role in physics. In this essay, Sergiu Klainerman retraces the development of modern mathematics, unexpected consequences in physics, and the perennial question of whether mathematics is itself a science.
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Mathematics The Unity of Partial Differential Equations [long_description] In late 2019, Sergiu Klainerman was interviewed in Paris by Jean-Michel Kantor. The following is a transcript of their conversation. Klainerman talks about his mathematical education in Romania and his interest in partial differential equations, general relativity, and fluid mechanics. He also reviews some of his goals and predictions for mathematical physics research over the next twenty years.

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