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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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  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

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