Interview with Alessio Figalli

[摘要] That is true. I really did not have any serious exposureto mathematics until I started university. I did not evenknow what a derivative was. In my last year of highschool, I attended a local mathematics Olympiad and itwas that which made me decide to apply to Scuola Normale. I attended the humanistic branch of high school,where you focus on the classics: Greek and Roman.