Why Study Math? UC Berkeley Professor Edward Frenkel

45 thoughts on “Why Study Math? UC Berkeley Professor Edward Frenkel”

1. What is the most fascinating STEM subject?

2. no way! love ed, can't wait.

3. I think it could change one’s conscious ability to compute certain types of geometry. However I think that would not rule out the circle.

4. I think this has to be why we created instruments, to perform more advanced measurements.

5. Could the universe not be the monopole? It probably is, in that spheres are most prevalent among strong interactions.

6. Projections or possible trajectories?

7. It must be invented otherwise nothing can be discovered.

8. I think that particles only appear to exist because the probability of observing a wave is the highest at the peak of its wavelength

9. I think so, but I also believe that there must be a considerable amount of universal momentum at which gives us the energy density to exist. Thus we are backed by curvature among uncertainty I suppose.

10. I don’t think that computers inherently are incapable of creativity, I just think that our ability to transfer angular momentum into computers is limited by our own understanding and inability to perform measurements among a chain reaction using very complex algorithms.

11. As an ex-wannabe-category-theorist I loved the book. I can't understand why Kurt Jaimingal doesn't do a 4 hour of math and Langlands talk!

12. Thank you for this conversation!

13. Ah man you should have kept this guy going. I think he’s somewhat manic😂.

14. Cool talk. Thanks.

15. If you understand math, you'll like it. If you do not understand it, you'll dislike it.

16. 3:00 you can tell the order of his paintings (van gough) by the number of fish remaining 🙂

17. 35:33 – Apparently all notes can be constructed from the Perfect Fifth. ^.^

18. like squared

19. I knew when he mentioned his love of Van Gogh that I would enjoy this video. I really liked Dr. Frenkel's humbly saying that learning and grasping new things shouldn't cause us to think that we don't have much more to learn. I agree. I think that even if a person lives forever, he or she will never become bored; there will always be much more to learn. Good job as always!

20. I'm not a maths geek(no offense lol) and maybe there are features of maths that address these questions, but how can mathematics be the language of nature in any transcendental sense? Mathematics doesn't have an axiomatic sense of time built into it, to order operations and produce consistent logic. That's just taken for granted from empirical reality that things are temporally ordered. That is, it's physical reality that is imbuing mathematics with a reliable cause and effect temporal order to underpin its logic. Similarly mathematics doesn't axiomatically provide a space for information to exist to be contained and mathematically elaborated. That too is just taken for granted from the empirical reality we can move information about according to laws of nature. Sure after the fact mathematics can circularly explain aspects of space,time and information reality, but without the implicit features of reality like time, space, unitarity etc we use to coherently and robustly map and manipulate ideas by and which mathematics takes for granted, what does mathematics even mean?

21. My meteorite came in the mail today, thank you so much!!! I was super fired up, my kids love it!

22. We need to find the cup that, projected in one way give us LOVE (circle) and projected in the other way give us MATH (square).

23. ❗️Thank you so much for the meteorite sample Dr Brian Keating ! That’s the best Christmas present, and my first ever meteorite.

24. One of my favorite mathematicians. He embodies in his being the Langlands program in a profound way, incorporating the physical with the metaphysical in a way which retains the joy of there always being uncertainty. Yes “Love and math”. Awesome holiday present Prof Brian. Thanks. 🎉

25. The future belongs to those gifted individuals who see the potential of combining two disparate advanced subjects and come up with a new perspective.

26. I believe that the dilemma between love and mathematics can be resolved in this practical, although perhaps somewhat simplistic way: when you have all the data, reason and logic, when you don't, intuition and emotions.

27. Non commutative algebra reveals the real nature of physis. When AB-CD is not zero, but equal to a non zero term like ihH you are in the quantum realm. Or else you are in the classical realm.

28. I don't know about this one.
    Dr Keating this guy doesn't even know what a circle is. (this is very funny joke for somebody who read love & math)
    Really big fan of both you guys.

29. Great talk, all the best. ..

30. prof Edward Frenkel has reallly great open mind – i love what he is doing)

31. is there relationship of beauty to mathematics?

32. symmetry in both beauty and mathematics?

33. conservation laws have symmetry, as well as mathematics and beauty?

34. symmetries behind conservation laws have beauty and are described mathematically?

35. maybe people expressing getting closer to God?

36. is symmetry described mathematically, or just the conservation laws from symmetry?

37. wow 😮 pure pleasure ❤❤❤❤

38. “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” ― E.M. Forster, Howards End.

39. The claims about discriminatory educational system are not credible. I've personally known many individuals (including Jewish like Frenkel) from that system who deny existence of alleged discrimination.

40. The book of Nature as representation of it is written in language of mathematics, but is Nature as is mathematical or is mathematics only an interpretation ?

41. Still waiting for the "Love" part.

42. 27:27 Even Pythagoras would have been tripping off these images – whoa.

43. This should have more views, it's good.

44. In a different universe, if I drew a straight line in a rotating circle, imagine if the tracing extended throughout time, if an observer is on the outside while they observe and they only saw the tracing of my drawing within units of a full revolution… but the observer cannot see what happens within the revolution. Only a full revolution. What would the observer on the outside see?

    The observer would not see a straight line, they would see a circle. It’s called the circumference across the diameter….. if you lived in a different universe with different structures of circles then the observer would be a different ratio.

45. Fulminar a los del Opus dei, crecidos y cuidados en el seno de la iglesia, cada uno ofrece lo que es. Son gente a la que aislar por MACABROS y torturadores de mujeres y frágiles con un único fin, la dominación y el poder sin ningún tipo de finalidad universal. Gente indeseable para nuestra civilización avanzada y racional.

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