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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Langlands Program
Robert Langlands is a mathematician who used to occupy the office of Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study. He came up with ideas which captivated mathematicians in the late 60s and they became known as the Langlands program. The idea was that number theory questions could be translated into much more easily tractable questions in harmonic analysis. This has been one of the major themes of my research it's sort of I always found it interesting to connect things to unite things when I was youngerI couldn't understand why but now I kind of understand moreWhy it's kind of a balance you know like the what we talked about earlier so he says.
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