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Love & Math: Edward Frenkel (#281)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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What's the Connection Between Number Theory and Harmonic Analysis?

Harmonic analysis is a bridge between number theory and other fields of mathematics. It's like you get in natural numbers or whole numbers in two different ways from two different fields of math. Langran imagined that some difficult problems of number theory could be recast as a problem in harmonic analysis, where the answer could be found more easily.

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