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 foster-father” 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 L-function 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/201904/rnoti-p494.pdf Robert Langlands is interviewed by the two mathematicians Christian Skau and Bjørn Ian Dundas. Produced by Yvonne Pettrém and Arve Nordland / UniMedia