Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370

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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:
0:00 - Introduction
1:10 - Mathematics in the Soviet Union
11:20 - Nature of reality
22:39 - Scientific discoveries
36:00 - Observing reality
52:12 - Complex numbers
1:00:58 - Imagination
1:08:49 - Pythagoreanism
1:16:44 - AI and love
1:29:22 - Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
1:49:48 - Beauty in mathematics
1:54:17 - Eric Weinstein
2:16:12 - Langlands Program
2:22:51 - Edward Witten
2:25:57 - String theory
2:31:25 - Theory of everything
2:40:18 - Mathematics in academia
2:45:45 - How to think
2:51:31 - Fermat's Last Theorem
3:06:22 - Eric Weinstein and Harvard
3:13:47 - Antisemitism
3:34:00 - Mortality
3:41:58 - Love

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