From Notices of the AMS
Abel Interview 2023: Luis Ángel Caffarelli

by Bjørn Ian Dundas
Christian F. Skau
This is a reprint of an article that appeared in the EMS Magazine. Reprinted with their permission.
Bjørn Ian Dundas/Christian F. Skau: Professor Caffarelli, firstly we want to congratulate you on being awarded the Abel Prize for 2023 for your "seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations, including free boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation." You will receive the prize tomorrow from His Majesty the King of Norway.
We will return to your mathematics, but first it might be a good idea to know something about your background. You were born in Buenos Aires in 1948. How would you describe your childhood?
Luis Ángel Caffarelli: We lived in a nice middle-class area of Buenos Aires. At the time when I was a kid I would play soccer a lot with my friends. Another game we enjoyed a lot was to throw a ball, or something else, and see who got it closest to a wall or to a line.
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