Edward Frenkel
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2,304 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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And in that world, everything is clear-cut.
It's either true or false.
How nice, huh?
Oh, my God.
The biggest illusion of all.
I think now.
I think now.
I understand why I liked it, because I think that I was very dissatisfied with the...
with what we call the real world, the world around me.
The cruelty, the injustice of it.
And I went through certain experiences as a kid, which made me love mathematics even more as this place where I could be safe and in control.
Yes.
Yes.
And I think that
I think that it's still missing the mark in some sense, because in fact, what I now think, it's a paradoxical question whether mathematics is invented or discovered, whether there is this world of pure forms and so on.
It's another paradoxical question which doesn't have a simple answer, like whether an electron is a particle or a wave.
From one point of view, yes, it's true.
And just the fact that so many mathematicians today actually subscribe to this idea gives it a certain credibility, because that's what we feel.
We do feel that we dive into that mindscape, so to speak, but the very structured mindscape, where I wrote in Love and Math that...
you know, the enchanted gardens of platonic reality, you know, where all this fruit grows, you know, and then we might, it gives you this sort of romantic sense of an explorer.
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