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