Edward Frenkel
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2,304 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
Edward Frenkel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a departure.
It is like a child who is experimenting.
It's like a child who says, I'm not afraid to be an idiot.
Everybody says...
The adults are saying square root of negative number doesn't exist, but guess what?
I'm going to accept it, and I'm going to play with it, and I'm going to see what happens.
This is literally how they were discovered.
There was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer.
He made money apparently by compiling astrological sort of readings for the elite of his era.
This is 16th century, as one does.
A gambler.
All around interesting guy.
I'm sure we would have an interesting conversation with him.
Gerolamo Cardano.
He also invented what's called Cardan shaft, which is an essential component of a car.
Cardano Vival, we say in Russian.
So he wrote a book, which is called Ars Magna, which is like the great art of algebra.
And he was writing solutions for the
cubic and quartic equations.
This is something that is familiar because
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