Edward Frenkel
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So his name was Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Petrov.
Yeah.
And if this doesn't remind you of the great works of Russian literature, then you haven't read them.
Like War and Peace, you know, with the patronymic names.
But this was all real.
This was all happening.
So my mom one day by chance met Yevgeny Yevgenyevich and told him about me.
that I was a bright kid and interested in physics.
And he said, oh, I want to meet him.
I'm going to convert him into math.
And my mom's like, nah, math, he doesn't like mathematics.
So they said, okay, let's see what I can do.
So I went to see him, so I'm about 15.
And a bit arrogant, I would say, you know, like average teenager.
So he says to me,
So I hear that you are interested in physics and elementary particles.
I said, yeah, sure.
I said, for example, do you know about quarks?
And I said, yes, of course I know about quarks.
Quarks are the constituents of particles like protons and neutrons.