Science, Theater, and Intellectual Curiosity with Max Planck Institute Founder Jürgen Jost
摘要
Jürgen Jost is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MiS) in Leipzig, Germany, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, USA. He was born in Münster, Germany, in 1956. He studied mathematics, physics, economics and philosophy at the University of Bonn from 1975 to 1980, and in 1980 he also completed his PhD in mathematics at the same university. He has held various postdoctoral and visiting positions at IAS Princeton, UC San Diego, ANU Canberra, MSRI Berkeley, Harvard, ETH Zürich and IHES Paris.