#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
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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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OUTLINE:
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(00:00 ) – Introduction
(05:54 ) – Mathematics in the Soviet Union
(16:05 ) – Nature of reality
(27:23 ) – Scientific discoveries
(40:45 ) – Observing reality
(56:57 ) – Complex numbers
(1:05:42 ) – Imagination
(1:13:33 ) – Pythagoreanism
(1:21:28 ) – AI and love
(1:34:07 ) – Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
(1:54:32 ) – Beauty in mathematics
(1:59:02 ) – Eric Weinstein
(2:20:57 ) – Langlands Program
(2:27:36 ) – Edward Witten
(2:30:41 ) – String theory
(2:36:10 ) – Theory of everything
(2:45:03 ) – Mathematics in academia
(2:50:30 ) – How to think
(2:56:16 ) – Fermat’s Last Theorem
(3:11:07 ) – Eric Weinstein and Harvard
(3:18:32 ) – Antisemitism
(3:38:45 ) – Mortality
(3:46:42 ) – Love
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