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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0718.00014.] This is a delightful paper revealing another side of a well-known mathematician, that of a most generous human being. The author talks, in sections which he calls ``conversations'', about problems which he considers important and yet not sufficiently studied, and which call for efforts in different fields of mathematics (measure theory, differential geometry, calculus of variations, differential equations, functional analysis, topology, etc. as mentioned by him). The author expects that these problems will trigger important work of mathematicians and physicists. He says that these sections represent real conversations with different people and as such must be seen not as an organic program but as the result of his desire of exchanging ideas with other scientists. He ends his ``Introduction'' by saying that ``this is currently the kind of mathematical work more adapted to me''. The conversations deal with I. Some classes of piecewise regular varieties; II. Partition problems. Soap-bubbles; III. Free discontinuity problems; IV. Geometric-distribution derivatives; V. Tangential derivatives; VI. Variational problems with tangential derivatives; VII. Free discontinuity problems related to the notions of boundary and geodesics; VIII. Generalized Euler equation and evolution equations.