Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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I was really struck by this.
He has had this unique vision of the subject.
He was able to connect different things.
especially find connections between quantum physics and mathematics.
Almost unparalleled.
I don't think anyone comes close in some sense in the last, you know, 50 years to him in terms of finding just consistently time after time, breaking ground, new ground, new ground.
So he would basically, one way one could describe it is he would take some idea in physics,
and then find an interpretation of it in mathematics, and then say, distill it, present it in mathematical terms, and tell mathematicians, this should be like that.
Kind of like 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 is minus 1 over 12.
And mathematicians would be like, no way.
And then it would pan out.
And mathematicians would then, like a whole industry would be created of groups of mathematicians trying to prove his conjectures and his ideas.
And he would always be proven right, you know?
So in other words, being able to glean some mathematical truths from physical theories, that's one side.
On the other hand,
Conversely, applying sophisticated mathematics.
He's probably the physicist who could learn mathematics the fastest.
Some younger physicists maybe could come close, but it's still quite a long way to go to be comparable to Witten.
To take some of the most sophisticated mathematics
And not learn it to the point where it becomes a practitioner of the subject practically.
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