Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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0:00 – Introduction
1:10 – Mathematics in the Soviet Union
11:20 – Nature of reality
22:39 – Scientific discoveries
36:00 – Observing reality
52:12 – Complex numbers
1:00:58 – Imagination
1:08:49 – Pythagoreanism
1:16:44 – AI and love
1:29:22 – Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
1:49:48 – Beauty in mathematics
1:54:17 – Eric Weinstein
2:16:12 – Langlands Program
2:22:51 – Edward Witten
2:25:57 – String theory
2:31:25 – Theory of everything
2:40:18 – Mathematics in academia
2:45:45 – How to think
2:51:31 – Fermat’s Last Theorem
3:06:22 – Eric Weinstein and Harvard
3:13:47 – Antisemitism
3:34:00 – Mortality
3:41:58 – Love
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