![]() ![]() So the question I asked myself is: how to change this perception? We, mathematicians, are the first to take the blame for this, because we have not done a good job communicating with the general public about what we do and why this is interesting (or beautiful). ![]() ![]() However, to most people this does not make any sense, because they don’t really know what math is really about. I believe that a mathematical formula can be beautiful – meaning its content – in the same way that a painting or a piece of music can be beautiful. I have always wanted to find a cinematic language for showing the beauty of mathematics. What brought you from the ivory towers of Berkeley to the world of showbusiness? To hide it from the forces of evil, Edward Frenkel, a mathematician from Berkeley, tattoos the formula of love on his lover’s skin, in his last movie “ Rites of love and math”… His famous work on affine algebras led to the recent breakthroughs in the Geometric Langlands program and its relation to quantum field theory. After leaving Russia, Frenkel obtained his PhD at Harvard University and he is now at Berkeley. ![]()
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