00:17 The esthetics and beauty of mathematics
05:13 Creative moments and revelations: are numbers beautiful or are they satisficing
07:55 Langlands background from British Columbia and “lack of academic ambition”
10:30 Langlands on why he chose mathematics after all and science interest
14:58 Choosing his PhD topic at Yale University
16:29 What led to the Langlands programme
20:00 Langlands on Bochner: “like a fosterfather”
23:13 The trace formula
27:10 Conversation with Selberg and his time at IAS
30:16 The work on Eisenstein series and the constant term
35:13 Reductive groups
38:18 Connection with Artin Conjecture and letter to Andre Weill
42:40 Functoriality: What the Langlands programme is all about
51:35 The importance of continuing this Lfunction
54:35 Wiles being inspired by Langlands
58:20 Fundamental Lemma
1:04:18 The importance of trace formula for functoriality
1:10:03 Langlands on being a theory builder

Interview in written. Notices of the American Mathematical Society:
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/...

Robert Langlands is interviewed by the two mathematicians Christian Skau and Bjørn Ian Dundas.
Produced by Yvonne Pettrém and Arve Nordland / UniMedia