#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 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