Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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So there is a traditional way of measuring that by these eras, the ages.
The previous one was called the Age of Pisces because of the constellation of Pisces that it points to, so to speak.
And now, as in the famous musical Hair, they said the Age of Aquarius is upon us.
So the different people dated differently, but somewhere around the time where we are finding ourselves.
How interesting, right?
There's all the strife and all the difficulties the world is experiencing.
This might actually be the transition to something more harmonious.
Wouldn't it be nice?
Yes.
So that's how I see it.
Actually, I gave a talk about Pythagoras and Pythagoreans just a few weeks ago at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.
And because of that, I did a kind of a deep dive into the subject.
And I learned that I actually totally misunderstood Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, that they were much deeper than I thought.
Because most of us remember Pythagoras from the Pythagoras theorem about the right triangles.
We also know that Pythagoreans were instrumental in introducing the tuning system for the musical scale, the famous perfect fifth, three halves for the G, for the Sol, compared to the frequency of Do or C. But actually they were
much more interesting.
For them, numbers were not just clerical devices, not the kind of thing that you would use in accounting only.
They were imbued with the divine.
I cannot say that I think we lost it.
At least I have lost it.
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