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Edward Frenkel

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Mathematician, @UCBerkeley professor, electronic music aficionado, author of LOVE & MATH published in 19 languages (if my math is correct)

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Edward Frenkel

1 year

I had a great time talking with @lexfridman on his podcast. We discussed a wide range of topics related to math, physics and AI - with paradoxical nature of reality being predominant theme. And Lex also inspired me to venture deeper into things like meaning of life, love & death.

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Lex Fridman

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Here's my conversation with Edward Frenkel ( @edfrenkel ), a mathematician at UC Berkeley, working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. Ed is a brilliant mind and a truly special human being. This was challenging, moving, and fun!

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Edward Frenkel

3 years

Disturbing news from Turkey where two students of Boğaziçi University, Enis Berke Gök & Caner Perit Özen, have been imprisoned for over a month for participating in protests against the gov't appointed rector. They should be released immediately and allowed to study. THREAD 1/5

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

RIP #MaryamMirzakhani -- a great mathematician and wonderful human being who broke a glass ceiling and inspired many, men and women alike.

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Edward Frenkel

3 years

I visited Boğaziçi in 2015. I stayed at the Kennedy Lodge on campus and gave a public lecture, one of the most memorable I've ever given. I was deeply moved by the response of the students. It pains me that today I speak not about math but about two students held in prison. 5/5

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Edward Frenkel

5 years

In the Fall of 2015, a crew from the Japanese TV channel NHK recorded my 4 lectures on the Langlands Program for general audience at @Mathmoves in Berkeley. They were then broadcast on TV in Japan as a mini-series. The first is now available on YouTube:

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Edward Frenkel

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This week I gave one of 4 “challenge talks” at the annual String Theory conference. Here's the video: I started with Richard Feynman’s notes on quantum integrable models & went on to explain the modern view linking them to dualities in math & physics. 1/5

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Edward Frenkel

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Yuri Manin has died. He was a brilliant mathematician who has influenced numerous fields of math and physics, founder of a school, deep thinker & philosopher, and a kind, gentle, generous human being. Inspired by his works since I was a teenager... 1/3

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Edward Frenkel

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Boğaziçi University was established in 1863 and is a jewel of Turkish higher education. And Turkey plays a vital role in the world today. But how can one have a vibrant society and economy if freedom of expression is not permitted even in its elite academic institutions? 3/5

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Edward Frenkel

8 years

Happy New Year 2016 = 11111100000 in binary! That's right: six 1's followed by five 0's. It's a special year. Enjoy!

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Edward Frenkel

3 months

"Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom." LOVE & MATH

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3 months

"Matematiğin olmadığı yerde özgürlük yoktur." - Edward Frenkel

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Edward Frenkel

8 months

It's been a long time coming... and here it is. Thank you, @BradyHaran ! If you are curious about the Langlands Program, this is your portal:

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The Langlands Program - Numberphile

Professor Edward Frenkel discusses the famed Langlands Program - "a kind of grand unified theory of mathematics". More links & stuff in full description belo...

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NEW VIDEO Strap yourselves in as @edfrenkel goes deep on the Langlands Program -

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I am reminded of the Freedom of Speech movement here at @UCBerkeley in the 1960s, when students were also arrested for demanding freedom of expression. Here's Mario Savio speaking at the Sproul Plaza in 1964. He was arrested too. But the flame of freedom keeps burning. 4/5

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Edward Frenkel

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According to their int'w w/ @cumhuriyetgzt , the students have been denied medicine and textbooks. Arrests were made during widespread peaceful protests on campus that have been going on for over 300 days. Call for Solidarity summarizes the situation: 2/5

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International Call for Solidarity: Boğaziçi University Academics Begin the 2021 Fall Term Under...

Boğaziçi University is under greater threat than ever before as the new term begins. It has been 10 months since the Turkish President appointed a rector to Boğaziçi University by a midnight decree...

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Edward Frenkel

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@ivanastradner It is ambiguous. Without the brackets, it is not clear in what order to do division and multiplication in the numerator. If division first (36 divided by 3) followed by multiplication by (8-6), then the numerator is 24, and so the overall result is 4. If multiplication first (3

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Edward Frenkel

2 years

This madness must stop. #WeStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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“Horrific Russian rocket strikes on Kyiv. Last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany,” Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs tweeted. “Ukraine defeated that evil and will defeat this one.”

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Edward Frenkel

4 years

Yesterday I gave 4-hour master class at Caltech on quantum integrable systems. It was a tribute to Richard Feynman whose office was next door. In fact, on his last blackboard it was written “TO LEARN: Bethe Ansatz Problems” which was the subject I was talking about! #loveandmath

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Edward Frenkel

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New paper with Etingof and Kazhdan laying the foundations for the analytic Langlands correspondence which we introduced 4 years ago. We also obtain new results on quantum integrable systems: Dedicated to the great Italian mathematician Corrado De Concini.

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Edward Frenkel

3 years

Wonderful to see this groundbreaking work by @EricRWeinstein & @PiaMalaney getting the attention of economists. Eric gave a talk about it @UChicago this week, which I attended & enjoyed. Using bundles w/connection (gauge theory) to define indices like CPI is a very promising idea

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3 years

The proposal to extend the Cost-Of-Living framework to changing ordinal preferences using differential geometry is now up at @uchicago here, as our inflation numbers soar. Thanks to my mathematical colleague @edfrenkel for going over the draft Tues night:

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Edward Frenkel

1 year

Here's a playlist of about 30 clips of my recent conversation with @lexfridman on his podcast, organized by topics (they are all from the Lex Clips YouTube channel -- check it out!):

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A very nice piece in @newscientist about a decades-long quest to prove the geometric Langlands correspondence (which I've been deeply involved in) that has culminated with a series of papers posted online a few weeks ago: The article quotes me in a few

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Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost no one can explain it

Mathematicians are celebrating a 1000-page proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, a problem so complicated that even other mathematicians struggle to understand it. Despite that, it is hoped...

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

This was the first proposition I proved yesterday in my Linear Algebra class at @UCBerkeley To an untrained eye, it may look like a tautology 0=0 but trust me: there's a lot more to it. 🤓✨ #loveandmath ❤🔢 #newsemester #newbeginnings #proof

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Edward Frenkel

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Super-happy that my paper with D. Kazhdan & P. Etingof on the analytic Langlands correspondence has been published in Duke Mathematical Journal (one of the world's top math journals): One of my 5 best works (out of about 100)

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Shocked by the untimely death of Vladimir Voevodsky, a great mathematician and a wonderful human. R.I.P. dear friend

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Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medalist, Dies at 51

The Institute for Advanced Study is deeply saddened by the passing of Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor in the School of Mathematics.Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician, made many...

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Edward Frenkel

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The third episode of the Japanese TV series on the Mysteries of Mathematics is now available on YouTube. I talk about the fascinating Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture. Filmed at @Mathmoves of @UCBerkeley and broadcast in Japan on the NHK TV channel in 2015

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Edward Frenkel

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We covered a lot of territory w/ Curt Jaimungal on his @TOEwithCurt podcast: the human element in our research, how we grow and evolve as scientists, what Alan Turing wrote about "thinking machines" and the failure of the original promise of string theory

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Edward Frenkel

3 years

Sidney Coleman's 1994 lecture "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face" is a gem (h/t @notevenwrong ) I finally see how to talk about Everett interpretation without invoking "many worlds" and it's just pure joy to watch/read it. Video: Notes:

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Sidney Coleman's Dirac Lecture "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face"

This is a write-up of Sidney Coleman's classic lecture first given as a Dirac Lecture at Cambridge University and later recorded when repeated at the New England sectional meeting of the American...

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Edward Frenkel

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Here one can look for guidance to the sages of the past, such as Richard Feynman. They liked mathematical models but never lost sight of the big prize: understanding the physics of THIS Universe. And I think that's still a good guiding principle for today's physicists. 5/5

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

Lev Landau — a great physicist, Nobel Prize winner, died 50 years ago today. He was my hero when I was growing up. I read all the books about him that I could find, and even had his photo on my desk. Here he is, with his teacher Niels Bohr, in Moscow in 1961.

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Our beautiful @UCBerkeley campus. Sure, there are some clouds but the Sun is winning. 😊💥❤️

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

The videos of the Abel Lectures by Robert Langlands, Jim Arthur & myself are now available here:

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Edward Frenkel

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I have enjoyed every minute of this 3-hour interview of Peter Woit by Curt Jaimungal on his @TOEwithCurt podcast: Through his book "Not Even Wrong" and his highly popular blog @NotEvenWrong , Peter has done a great service to the community in the past 20

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Peter Woit: Unification, Spinors, Twistors, String Theory

Prof. Peter Woit discusses string theory, its decline, and introduces his graviweak unification theory using Euclidean twistor in Euclidean spacetime.TIMESTA...

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Edward Frenkel

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Mathematicians use novel tools to design an algorithm producing solutions of an equation called "Cursed Curve" in whole numbers, cracking a 40-year old problem. Cool piece by @KSHartnett in @QuantaMagazine , which even includes the equation itself.

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Edward Frenkel

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Watching this conversation of @Tegmark & @LexFridman and greatly enjoying it. Appreciate Max's depth and clarity -- and above all, his optimism. So important to have faith that life has meaning, that we can -- and will -- build a better world together.

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Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman...

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial...

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Fumiharu Kato, a mathematician from Tokyo Institute of Technology, gave a 90-minute public lecture on Mochizuki's IUT in Tokyo in October. According to the organizers, it was watched online in realtime by more than 100,000 people (via Niconico website). Wow! (h/t Ivan Fesenko)

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Edward Frenkel

8 years

"The judge is a Mexican and so he should be removed. But I'm not a racist." Thanks for the clarification, Mr. Trump

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If You Ever Need a Reminder of How Awful and Incoherent Trump Is, Watch This Clip

Describing a Donald Trump interview as insane, surreal, or mind-numbingly incoherent is cliché by now but, frankly, I’m not sure how else to sum up his...

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Reading "The Lady or the Tiger?" by great logician Raymond Smullyan who just passed away. Here's what I find on page 3 I'm not kidding you 😀

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Edward Frenkel

5 years

Congratulations to Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of 2019 @Abel_Prize ! Her work on moduli spaces of instantons ("Uhlenbeck compactification") revolutionized several fields of math & physics. For more, read this excellent @QuantaMagazine piece by @EricaKlarreich :

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Edward Frenkel

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Observer-dependence of quantum mechanics is well-known: different experimental setups reveal different facets of reality. In my new article just published by @IAI_TV : I argue that there's a similar "observer problem" in mathematics: to do math we have to

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Maths, like quantum physics, has observer problems

We are well aware by now of the observer problem in quantum mechanics. Human subjectivity appears to play a key role in the results of quantum experiments. However, the observer problem reaches far...

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Edward Frenkel

9 years

The video of my Aspen Lecture at @Aspenideas Festival "I am or AI am?"

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There has been a lot of controversy lately on the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, some important elements appear to be missing in the debat...

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Edward Frenkel

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Our new paper with D. Hernandez is out on @arxiv . It describes an extended family of relations between representations of quantum affine algebras: This is my math paper No. 100, so I guess it's something to celebrate:

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Edward Frenkel

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Science started as a project to unite us, to bring us closer to nature: And yet, today we are being told by scientists: "You are a bag of particles" (Brian Greene) or "a bunch of neurons" (Robert Sapolsky) - suggesting that we are separate from each other,

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Our Evolving (Un)knowing in Science & Math: Edward Frenkel

You can watch all our videos at https://scienceandnonduality.com∞ An excerpt from Edward Frenkel's Recent SAND Event "Beyond Algorithms: Free Will, Infinity ...

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Edward Frenkel

2 years

I'm proud of my Russian heritage, but today I'm ashamed of being Russian. Russia's aggression against Ukraine is a despicable power grab which heralds a catastrophe for Russian people and all Slavic people. This cannot stand and the response must be swift.

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Biden calls Putin’s actions the ‘beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.’ (Published 2022)

President Biden condemned President Vladimir V. Putin for his aggression against Ukraine, saying the new sanctions cut off Russia from Western finance.

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Edward Frenkel

5 years

The second episode of the Japanese TV series on the Mysteries of Mathematics is now available on YouTube. It's focused on symmetry groups and Galois theory. Based on my lectures at @Mathmoves of @UCBerkeley , filmed and broadcast in Japan by NHK in 2015:

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1 year

Great to see @DrBrianKeating here at @UCBerkeley on this lovely Spring day. I really enjoyed our conversation on his INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast back in December (check it out: ) And it’s even more fun to talk in person!

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I think 2023 qualifies to be called a lucky number. Do you? 🤓 Happy New Year! 🎉🥂🥳❤️ #NewYear2023 #math #loveandmath

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Edward Frenkel

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A giant who greatly influenced modern mathematics and its connections to quantum physics. RIP

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MIT Mathematics

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We mourn @mit Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore Singer, who died Feb. 11. His seminal Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem and other achievements earned him the Bôcher Prize, Natl Medal of Science, @amermathsoc Steele Prize, and Abel Prize. @mathmoves @mitscience

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I grew up in USSR & saw prosecution of gov't opponents. My grandpa was in Gulag for 8 yrs. Trump's threat to jail his opponent is OUTRAGEOUS

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Editorial in @NYTimes details how Trump is using his Presidency for personal gain. This is really sickening. #resist

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

My film (w/ Reine Graves) RITES OF LOVE & MATH is freely available for the 1st time in video mag. of @imaginescience

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9 years

I will speak at @METU_ODTU "Turkey's MIT" on Nov 26 Title: Mathematics & Love in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Edward Frenkel

4 years

His discovery was “one of the great jewels of the unity of mathematics.” "He was larger than life in many ways, but at the same time he was very humble.” A very nice tribute to Vaughan Jones by @dcastelvecchi in @Nature :

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Vaughan Jones (1952–2020)

Nature - Mathematician whose invention connected knots to quantum physics.

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

Congratulations to Masaki Kashiwara on winning the @KyotoPrize ! His foundational work in the theory of D-modules and microlocal analysis underpins several branches of modern mathematics.

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

I have deleted my earlier tweet which I wrote being unaware that S.Mochizuki is Editor-in-Chief of the journal to which he submitted his papers. This is unfortunate. It creates the appearance of a conflict of interest & hence undermines one's confidence in the refereeing process.

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Edward Frenkel

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Barry Mazur is not only one of the greatest living mathematicians; he is also a sage. There's a new documentary film about him, "Barry Mazur and the Infinite Cheese of Knowledge." A trailer just dropped on YouTube, and it looks awesome! h/t Michael Harris

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Barry Mazur and the Infinite Cheese of Knowledge - Trailer

Sheep Street Films Presents:Barry Mazur and the Infinite Cheese of KnowledgeDirected by Oliver RalfeA compelling and intimate portrait of one of the world's ...

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

This beautiful piece by @sioroberts in @NautilusMag captures well Volodya Voevodsky's uncompromising quest for truth

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6 years

New paper on the quantum Langlands duality #loveandmath

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1 year

My friend Jaron Lanier is one of the deepest thinkers in Silicon Valley. Loving his new piece on AI in @NewYorker : "The most pragmatic position is to think of AI as a tool, not a creature... what we are building today is as an innovative form of social collaboration. Seeing AI as

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Carl Jung on studying math at school in "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" Alas, the way we teach math turns off even the brightest students.

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Edward Frenkel

9 years

Details on the shutting down of @reddit_AMA in the middle of my AMA: All this sounds really bad and unprofessional.

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

Nice to see #GoogleDoodle marking Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday. One of the greatest mathematicians of all time, he wrote: "It is not knowledge but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, that grants the greatest enjoyment."

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Edward Frenkel

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I'm excited about my online conversation this Saturday, 12/16 @ 11 am PST, with the founders of @NondualScience conference about the nature of reality and the fallacy of the naive ideas of determinism and computationalism. To join us, use this link:

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Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of all time taught us that Life transcends computation Excellent piece @sioroberts

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Edward Frenkel

10 months

I had the pleasure to interact with many members of the string community. I'm truly impressed with their brilliance, especially the young minds. However, for the health of the subject going forward, I believe it is necessary to reckon with the past and accept responsibility. 4/5

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Edward Frenkel

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Mathematicians have benefited tremendously from string theory in the last 40 years. But string theorists' promise to produce physics of THIS Universe from string theory (which starts out with a 10-dim'l spacetime) has not panned out. The subject is now at the crossroads. 3/5

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Explaining in what sense things can be "the same" and yet "different" in my Linear Algebra class at @UCBerkeley For more details, see

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Excellent piece by @kennethsilber in @SpliceToday2022 about the current debate on determinism: It includes a neat summary of my recent @NondualScience online event: "Frenkel uses an intriguing analogy to counter claims, such as those of physicist Brian

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Free Will, Particles, and Ice Cubes

Seeking insights in an ever-changing universe.

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Edward Frenkel

1 year

Photographer @chrismichel is Artist-in-Residence at @theNASEM who has been working on a series of photographs of scientists: Do you recognize this guy?

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National Academies: New Heroes - Christopher Michel

Capturing the essence of leaders in science, engineering, and medicine through soulful images holds tangible value for our society. In a world often absorbed by the superficial, these quiet portraits...

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Portrait of @UCBerkeley mathematician @edfrenkel for @theNASEM #newheroes

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The new version of our joint paper w/ P. Etingof & D. Kazhdan is now available on @arxiv : We have added a lot of new material, including an analogue of the functoriality principle in the novel analytic Langlands correspondence that my co-authors and I have

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Awesome new book VISIONS OF THE UNIVERSE by @alexbellos & E.Harriss shows beautiful math and let's you color it. Feeling like a kid again :)

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8 years

I specifically tell my students NOT to do that during an exam. #cheater #electionday #Elections2016

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"Virtual reality is sold as an illusion but is real for what it is. Good magicians will tell you 'this is all an illusion, I’m faking you out.' As compared to con artists. In the same way, VR is the real thing and AI is the fake thing." Jaron Lanier @WIRED

The Father of Virtual Reality Is Back With a New Book

A conversation with Jaron Lanier, whose memoir, 'Dawn of the New Everything,' explores his early VR career.

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Edward Frenkel

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Interview of the mathematician and educator @ClaraGrima in Spanish newspaper @el_pais . Alas, it's behind a paywall. But as the quote below indicates, it's about making mathematics more accessible, so it's not just a small elite that knows math and has power over us as a result.

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La profesora Grima: "Como dice Edward Frenkel [profesor de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Berkeley, en EE UU], hay una pequeña élite que tiene el poder. Y lo tiene porque sabe matemáticas y tú no".

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

Celebrating the last sunset of 2017 and welcoming 2⃣0⃣1⃣8⃣ Happy New Year! 🎉✨🎊🎺🍾❤️

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Edward Frenkel

7 years

Zuckerberg’s "both sides" is like Trump's "many sides." FB oversight is badly needed. @zeynep 's insightful analysis:

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Edward Frenkel

6 years

Delighted to take part in the award ceremony of Abel Prize for Robert Langlands and to give one of the Abel Lectures in Oslo next week. More info:

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A Theory Claiming Reality is More Than the Sum of Its Parts Thought-provoking piece by @nattyover in @QuantaMagazine

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Edward Frenkel

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Just answered a question someone asked me on Quora for the first time: Is there a real, conceptual difference between rational and irrational numbers or are the differences an artifact of our numbering system? by Edward Frenkel

Is there a real, conceptual difference between rational and irrational numbers or are the differe...

Edward Frenkel's answer: The conceptual difference between the two is enormous. Rational numbers are defined purely algebraically: you start with the ring of integers (which is the smallest ring in...

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I'm proud to work at @UCBerkeley , public university that values Diversity & Free Speech. Please support: #CalBigGive

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Excellent piece by @KSHartnett in @QuantaMagazine about a fruitful unification framework for 3 areas of math proposed by André Weil: The article quotes me saying that this shows the essential role intuition plays in mathematical research: " 'These ideas

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A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most...

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Michael Harris has a new blog dedicated to his fabulous new book "Mathematics Without Apologies". Check it out:

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Mathematics without Apologies, by Michael Harris

An unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life

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Love the message here: "Being human will only be more important as AI becomes more powerful." But disagree with this: "Is there going to be a great human-versus-robots war? Yes. My goal is to make sure the humans win." Let's make love (and math), not war!

The Brilliant Math Coach Teaching America’s Kids to Outsmart AI

This professor is traveling the country with simple advice for an uncertain future: Be more human.

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Video of my @NondualScience conversation: I talk about the alarming trend in popular science today that pushes people to believe that we are separate from each other and from nature. We are told, "you are a bag of particles" or "a bunch of neurons" or "a

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Beyond Algorithms – Free Will, Infinity & Limits of AI: Edward Frenkel

You can watch all our videos at https://scienceandnonduality.comFrom a SAND conversation with Edward Frenkel, mathematician, Berkeley professor and author of...

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I have found a truly marvelous proof of the Goldbach conjecture but unfortunately I can't fit it in this tweet b/c 140 characters is not eno

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Make no mistake about it: It's a constitutional crisis - a mutiny - when CBP is in contempt of a federal court order

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We have a constitutional crisis today. Four Members of Congress asked CBP officials to enforce a federal court order and were turned away.

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In addition to his groundbreaking works, he published dozens of books & essays on a variety of topics. He had a unique writing style & passion that made you fall in love with math, gave you hope that truth & beauty will triumph after all. E.g. RIP, teacher

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This tweet just came up in my Notifications. The talk I gave at @UniBogazici almost 7 years ago, at a gorgeous university library which was packed -- people sitting on the floor and the stairs -- is one of the most memorable talks I've ever given.❤️ #loveandmath #sweetmemories

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Ed Frenkel @edfrenkel at Bogazici @UniBogazici the subject is Love and Math.

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Make no mistake: if US Marshals (who are supposed to enforce courts' decisions) are put under control of Executive Branch, this is a coup.

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Trump-Russia plot thickens considerably... @TPM piece by @joshtpm giving important context to today's @NYTimes lede.

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MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, wonderful new film about Ramanujan is out. Catch Q&A in Berkeley w/ director & mathematicians

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Breakthroughs in economics often happen b/c new mathematical tools are used. This work is about using diff. geometry to measure inflation in a novel way, and its impact could be huge. I've been following it since 2012 and wrote about it in @Slate in 2013:

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Everyone Should Have the Right To Bear Mathematical Arms

Imagine a world in which it is possible for an elite group of hackers to install a “backdoor” not on a personal computer but on the entire U.S....

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New work proposes an extension of Bell's inequalities questioning the very existence of objective reality. To paraphrase, "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is Wigner"🤓 Fascinating account by @anilananth in @QuantaMagazine

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A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics

The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.

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Here they are, 300+ students of my Linear Algebra class @UCBerkeley First lecture. Love those smiles :) #loveandmath

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Excellent summary of my recent article about the "observer problems" in math by Tony Philips on the @amermathsoc website: In my article, I argued that the choice of axioms brings an "observer" into the picture. One such choice is whether to include the

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Tony’s Take February 2024

This month’s topics: How old is the decimal point? The topology of telepathy “Observer problems” in mathematics How old is the decimal point? “Decimal fractional numeration …

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In this concluding episode of Japanese TV mini-series on Mysteries of Mathematics, I bring together all the threads discussed so far and talk about exciting connections between the Langlands Program and Quantum Physics (Filmed at @mathmoves by NHK in 2015)

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My lecture series will be shown on NHK TV in Japan every Friday night starting this Friday:

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The #OpenAI brouhaha reminded me of the quote from the father of computation Alan Turing that mathematics itself points to "inadequacy of reason unsupported by common sense." I elaborate on it in this clip from my recent interview on @TOEwithCurt podcast:

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Humans Are Superior to Machines | Ed Frenkel

FULL episode with mathematician Edward Frenkel from Sept 2023 can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_oPMcvHbAcNOTE: The perspectives expresse...

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Let's call it what it is: *unregulated* AI-charged psychological warfare being used for an extraordinary power grab.

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In 2014 I gave a masterclass at @WorldSciFest , aimed at general audience, about the Langlands Program as a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics. @WorldScienceU has posted this @YouTube playlist of my lectures, a follow-up live session, and Q&A. Enjoy! 😀

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Masterclass - Edward Frenkel: Mathematics - The Language of Nature

Mathematician Edward Frenkel takes a look at the elegant formalism of mathematics, discussing the Langlands program and the idea of mathematical unification ...

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Video of my talk at the Abel Conference last week in which I explained the origins of the geometric Langlands Program & discussed the possibility of developing analytic theory of automorphic functions for complex curves: My notes:

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My first DJ set is out on SoundCloud: It's a collaboration with my dear friend DJ Chi, recorded live in Berkeley Hills and titled "What is Happiness?" Following in the footsteps of Pythagoras who taught us that music & math are two sides of the same coin.

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