Edward Frenkel: The Math Proof No One Could Explain Until Now
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How are you doing today, Edward? |
| 0:01.6 | I'm doing great, Kurt. It's great to see you, and it's great to be back on the Theories of Everything podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | Yes, and to give some context for people who are wondering, what is this particular episode about the reason we're here, |
| 0:14.9 | is that my good friend, Professor of Physics, Lucas Cardoso, WhatsApp messaged me a web page titled Proof of the Geometric Langlands |
| 0:22.9 | Conjecture. And then he asked me if this was legitimate. So I then WhatsApped my other good friend, |
| 0:28.0 | namely you, Professor of Mathematics, Edward Frankel, to find out if it was indeed. And you said, |
| 0:33.9 | yes. And moreover, we talked about how you're like Forrest Gump. And many mathematical |
| 0:38.7 | achievements have you peppered in, either in the foreground or in the background. The Forest Gump on |
| 0:44.2 | mathematics. Yes, exactly. So love and math covers some of that. That's your popular book, and the link |
| 0:51.9 | to that will be on screen and in the description. And in that book, |
| 0:55.2 | you provide an accessible introduction to what's one of the most abstract of all the mathematical topics, |
| 1:01.4 | namely the Langland's conjectures. And since this is a recent monumental result, which is decades |
| 1:08.3 | in the making, this channel is one of the places where we can go into the technical details in podcast form instead of overviews. |
| 1:15.1 | So you brought your trusty iPad and you're going to walk us through what this result means, how it was achieved and what the future looks like. |
| 1:22.3 | That's right. Yes. So I'm happy to be back. And I also want to say that from watching your videos of your interviews, of your conversations on this podcast theories of everything, I feel like your audience is more interested, kind of in more in-depth discussion of some fairly sophisticated topics in mathematics, quantum physics, and other areas. |
| 1:47.1 | So that's why I was actually happy to accept your invitation to talk about this subject, |
| 1:52.3 | which is quite esoteric and quite sophisticated and quite technical, because I know that there |
| 1:58.2 | is a sufficient, at least sufficient number of your viewers, of your audience, |
| 2:03.4 | who I actually dig this kind of discussions, this kind of discussions, which perhaps go |
| 2:07.8 | more, go deeper and into more technical aspects than discussions on other podcasts. |
| 2:13.1 | Yes. |
| 2:14.0 | So I just want to say from the beginning that this is really a very important achievement indeed. |
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