Love & Math: Edward Frenkel (#281)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Edward Frenkel’s latest book Love and Math, a New York Times bestseller, was named one of the Best Books of the year by both Amazon and iBooks, and won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. The book reveals a side of math seldom seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. Mathematics, he writes, directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars. Love and Math is also about accessing a new way of thinking, which empowers us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the hidden magic universe of mathematics. Edward Frenkel is Russian born and overcame a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century’s leading mathematicians. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored 3 books and over 90 scholarly articles in academic journals and is an electronic music aficionado. Frenkel’s research is on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics, with an emphasis on the Langlands Program, which he describes as a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics. twitter.com/edfrenkel www.edwardfrenkel.com www.youtube.com/@edfrenkel Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3PRMUhxGQkyQzLiiCqlf?si=8656119458df4555 🎧 On Audible it’s here : https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Impossible-With-Brian-Keating-Podcast/B08K56PXJX?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShar Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So what we go astray is when we say there is nothing else but computation
0:07.0	there is nothing else by thinking and so on the great ones knew that the
0:11.8	heart has its reasons of which the reason knows nothing and I think that we have to take some wisdom from that and take it seriously and then you know that's the balance and that's the balance.
0:25.0	Welcome friends to another wonderful episode.
0:30.0	Welcome friends to another wonderful episode of the Into the Impossible
0:34.2	podcast featuring yours truly Brian Keating, the Chancellor's Professor of
0:37.8	Physics at UC San Diego and also the Associate Director of the Arthur C.
0:41.6	Clark Center for Human Imagination and today we take a deep dive into the imagination with none other than friend and colleague in the University of California, Professor Edward Frankel of UC Berkeley. He is a renowned mathematician. He is a filmmaker and he is an author of one of the New York Times most popular books ever written on math called Love and Math, The Heart of Hidden Reality,
1:05.8	best-selling book reviewed so splendiferously all over the place.
1:10.3	We talk about many things ranging from so-called artificial intelligence and the challenge it provides.
1:16.0	Will future mathematicians be artificial or natural?
1:20.0	Talk about quantum weirdness, giants in mathematics, and of course love and math.
1:25.4	What does it mean to him? And last but not least his research is a mathematician.
1:29.6	We're normally here talking with physical scientists, whether they be theoretical physicists or astronomers
1:34.7	that observe the universe or experimentalists like me who build things. But today we're with a mathematician
1:40.3	and not the first one we've had on many mathematicians Stephen Wolfram, Jim Simons, and also Stephen Strogats, and it's a real pleasure to talk to mathematicians whenever I can.
1:50.0	My father was a mathematician and it's kind of baked into my blood, although I don't have the aptitude of an Ed Frankel.
1:58.0	Nevertheless, it's quite fascinating to hear about his approach to the so-called Langl-lanons program.
2:02.0	I'll find out what that means, why was so essential,
2:04.4	and what he did to help solve it. In the meantime, I ask you to subscribe to the YouTube channel
2:09.6	in which I broadcast these videos, that's Dr. Brian Keating. You can also find me and Ed on Twitter,
2:14.0	I'm Dr. Brian Keating. He is Ed Frankel. And this is a real delight. And so addition to following
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