#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

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
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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