A conversation with Caucher Birkar

Submitted by Marianne on December 18, 2018

Caucher Birkar won a Fields Medal at this year's International Congress of Mathematicians. He received the prestigious prize for his contributions to an area of maths called algebraic geometry. In this video he tells us about his work and his unusual mathematical journey.

You can find out more about Birkar's work in this article.

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