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: – House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order – Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get free trial – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free

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OUTLINE: Here’s the timestamps for 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