Coffin Problems (with Edward Frenkel) - Numberphile Podcast
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Edward Frenkel's fascinating mathematical journey - from the Soviet Union to the United States.
Edward's website - edwardfrenkel.com
Love and Math - Edward's book via Amazon - amzn.to/2rbfWHd
Edward on Twitter - / edfrenkel
His videos on Numberphile - bit.ly/Frenkel_Playlist
Artificial Intelligence: First Person Perspective - www.edwardfrenkel.com/ai-safe...
Coffin Problems paper (aka Jewish Problems) - arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1556v1.pdf
Rites of Love and Math - the film - www.edwardfrenkel.com/film/
About the film and its Formula of Love - www.edwardfrenkel.com/math-lo...
Frenkel research papers - arxiv.org/search/?query=frenk...
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MSRI - www.msri.org
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Ed Frenkel is a legend. His book is great, and his Riemann zeta function videos are up there with the best across all of Brady’s channels!
Videos plural? Ive only seen 1 care to link the others?
This was so insanely good, I have no words to describe the goodness. Once again, Brady completely amazes me with his ability to make a math podcast better than I could have imagined possible.
I wouldn't really call this a "math podcast", but more of a talk show.
Edward seems like a really great guy, and I'd love to hear more from him. I am happy that he made it through the challenges without becoming bitter or resentful - he sounds like he is incredibly considerate of others, between the lines.
Brady's work is what led me to discover that I don't hate math.
Honestly? I haven't really thought about it, but I think the same, although it's mostly *numbers* that I enjoy
This podcast is a real gem - monumental!
I often have quoted Frenkel's take on math education as "painting a fence." His way of understanding what math truly is verses what everyone has come to think of it because of the way so many education systems work, speaks to me so deeply.
And now listening to the stories of his life and struggles in Soviet Russia has pierced me right to my core.
My mother was born in Soviet Russian. She met my father, an American, when he was studying in Moscow State University. That university played an important part of both their lives, and through their stories to mine, and I knew exactly what Frenkel meant when he talked about that gorgeous building, as I've seen it with my own eyes. It amazing and scary to think about what was going on there behind the scenes.
Frenkel is so right about the way Soviet culture put prestige on math and science. My mother trained to be an engineer in Moscow. She passed down that Russian love of mathematics to me as well, and I always excelled at it. Though I ended up studying linguistics (another very math-like field) at university, I still love math and its poetic beauty.
To hear Frenkel's story connects me deeply to the world my mother came from, to my mathematical roots, and to so much of who I am and who I want to be. It's truly moving.
I also love music and that most Russian of arts - poetry. I love to hear mathematicians like Frenkel connecting the poetic mind and the mathematical one, when so, so many people see these as polar opposites.
Everything about this interview, I love it! I love it! I love it!!!!
Damn, I really didn't want this to end.. so much juicy passion
watching/listening to Professor Frenkel's videos is a very different experience after having actually been his student
How was it? I took 110 with Holtz last spring, which was great.
Do tell!
I've got to say, having read the autobiography, especially the surprising last chapter and the WTF footnotes, I emphatically believe you.
Let me chime in with the rest of the comments: This was the best podcast yet (and I liked quite a lot of them). Especially Edward Frenkel explaining how it's the job of the system to block, and how you shouldn't take it personally and see it as an obstacle that you should overcome, really struck a chord with me. I immediately bought his book.
I'm searching for it on Amazon now. This was an insanely interesting podcast, for many reasons, not just the maths.
I hope to see a Numberphile video on p-adic numbers by Fenkel in the near future!
2019: Coffin Problems
2020: Coughing Problems
In a New York Italian accent these are the same thing
I love professor Frenkel, he's terribly eloquent and a great explainer. And his story could be a Hollywood movie, totally :D
And here I was expecting coffin related problems.
hearing someone be so happy about their life and career trajectory, it brings me great satisfaction
truly glorious background
Kinda wished there was a camera to record like JRE and basically rest of podcasts today, BUT still didn't take away from how amazing this was. This guy for sure was one of my top favorites in brady's channels.
A lot of podcasts (including Numberphile) are heavily edited. Like hundreds and hundreds of minor cuts. It makes them better as an audio experience but would make them unwatchable as videos.
Not being recorded with cameras can also be a different experience for the speaker and result in different content.
Thanks for another great interview and letting us hear more of Professor Frenkel's extraordinary personal story.
This was stunning talk. Thank you Brady and Professor Frenkel!
thanks so much for having this story told. this was the best episode ever.
I was reading "Coffein Problems", which would be a reasonable topic among mathematicians.
THE best numberphile podcast to date. Great work Brady!
Amazing interview. I enjoyed every second of it.
Keep up the good work.
I listen to Edward Frenkel's videos like it's a piano piece, whether it's about math or just life itself; it's relaxing
That was great, more of a journey than I was expecting. It's no revelation or anything but the throughline in all these interviews of noteworthy people having their skills fostered by often less significant but (at least to them) no less noteworthy mentors has become quite striking to me. Especially with how it's usually the one introducing them to the field rather than someone later on in their career.
I'll have to check out his book.
All of you should read Love and Math. And judging by how amazing the Numberphile family is, you probably have already read it! But for those who haven't, it is an amazing book by our own Edward Frenkel that I can't recommend enough!
What a surprising discovery !
I've not listend to a podcast with such an interest for a long time ! Thank you
As a semi-slav, this story is very inspirational. I have an interview for mathematics at Cambridge soon, hopefully I won't get one of these coffin problems!
I rushed to buy the book after listening to half the podcast. I know I am late to the party... I can relate to Professor Frenkel's experience with growing up under an oppressive communist regime. My escape from depression as a teenager in the mid-80s was physics. I can't wait to read the book.
Watching the same thing repeatedly (especially when you have a good foundation already) is a great way to learn a language
I would have very much enjoyed a teacher with his capabilities in high school...but what do you expect from Kansas public schools...Frenkel is a class act. And Brady is s certified madman! I enjoy this channel a great amount...so thank you for introducing me to these interesting individuals amd ideas.
Thank you. This was deeply meaningful.
I read his book Love and Math. A great read.
Dear Professor , you choose your words and topics most exceptionaly. Thank you.
I'd love to sit down and have a beer with Professor Frenkel. There are so many things I'd like to ask him.
I'm so thankful that thanks to channels like Numberphile I know that real world maths isn't confined to the middle or high school syllabus. It actually makes maths my favourite subject, I'm always so excited when we start a new topic
So goood brady! He is my favourite professor by far... such charisma!
I liked how the background switched to American flag when they started talking about his life in America.
@Edward: The artistry is astounding. Well done!
Great stories, well told, what a guy!
This was quite a fascinating episode. I can see how many might not appreciate the movie, but I enjoyed the premise and the movie iotself.
I love pure math, I was originally a pure math major, attending UC Davis, but something I struggle with is what I am going to do with it. I need to make money, support myself, pay for college, you know? I ended up switching to computer science for better career prospects but pure math is what calls me still.
TeachAManToPhish you can use math in your applied comsci career. Look I to artificial intelligence and machine learning. There’s plenty of $$ and interesting math to enjoy.
@@hamudidoodi for sure, next quarter I will be taking an artificial intelligence course. Looking forward to it
You can make a lot of money with a Pure math degree.
Math degree prospects are great tho
I enjoy all of his videos.
it was great. Thanks Brady!
Wow!
That was so... Fulfilling!
Is it a coincidence that Oil and Gas sounds vaguely similar to Euler and Gauss?
How was the kaleidoscope background made? Very nice. (And interesting interview of course!)
Please make Edward's life into a movie
Great podcast !
Spasibav, Numberphile.
A great depiction of a moment in history. As of now, i hope to never forgot what was said
A amazing person., makes me feel pleased to be a member of the race. Thank you so much for this presentation of his being!
wow, what an amazing story
This guy is fascinating great stuff
The chapter on p-adic numbers is mislabeled "Periodic Numbers".
49:57 jujutsu
Whether air media or iron rod media or metal string media etc things take a curve somewhat like spring action. When you have a balance and put weight on either side to balance then the balance curves a little bit on either side to hold. The bending spring action depends on the balance used. If you make it weak and put huge weight it will bend and fall called tripping. They are all vector curves which put them balancing. One twelfth is the normal distribution curve for the entire loads on either side for elastic. For inelastic it might break. This bending create a frequency of swing to compensate for the load on either side and the fulcrum. Or the CG. Frequency is a measure of how much they are bent and sway or spring. Light is max curvature of space. Numbers are sequence of vibration of frequency. That is increasing frequency sequence of difference one. So normal number line means one twelfth of the curvature or frequency of 12 for the infinite number sequence. Essentially something to do with bending to circle. In two D it is a circular disk. Frequency 12×12 π. For 3D 12×12×12 π square.
Huh, it's really interesting to hear this in a podcast and depcited as a systematic thing even though I have heard all of these as anectodal stories of people who immigrated from the USSR to Israel.
would love the slot name to be fixed to 'P-adic Number' instead of 'Periodic Number' please
Dr. Frenkel, your accent makes me want to learn Russian lol. Your emphasis on facing past trauma is resonating with me, when you assign guilt to yourself that really belongs to others, you are still denying yourself healing. Please don't pull a Taniyama and off yourself.
Cowardice and bullying go together. How can you destroy other people's future, and then expect forgiveness?
Is there a Russian version of the "Coffin Problems" paper -- a copy of the paper in Russian?
Heard from a linguist on UA-cam that the Stalin's book on linguistics actually makes sense, as it put an end to pseudo-scientific Japhetic theory of languages gaining ground in the USSR.
117 km is indeed 72.7 mi. (or 72 mi. 6 fur.). Cool! Assuming it's not 170. >.>
If u are a Prof at Berkeley there's a 90% somebody mentions they took a class with them in the UA-cam comment sections lol
The definition of a circle as ALL points equidistant from center is not a cherry picking question it was a very popular question on exam to MSU. It is a trap but it was asked to most applicants.
How do you know?
Какой няша.
E Frenkel can't stop a train
I'm a simple man, I see Edward Frenkel and I click on the video.
Perelman is of Jewish descent he didnt have problems like that, right ? He didnt go to moscow though
He did have problems of the same kind. A book by Masha Gessen on Perelman describes it in detail.
Why people died with TB.
It's at times like this, I consult Ezekiel 23:20, and all becomes clear...
The journey from provincial small town to Harvard is fascinating and inspiring. It shows the power of will a dedication. I quite doubt that late millennials and even more likely generation Z could do that same. They would break.
Very Boomer of you.
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Does he look like Martin Freeman to anyone else?
The Maths Office
When I heard that the university for jews was called oil and gas I went like "oh no..."
It is obviously not university for jews. It is probably engineering focused uni where people oppressed by the regime could study, because they were not allowed at the most famous uni of the Union.
i dont hate math. i hate evil men
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How pretentious do you have to be to get offended over an avant-garde film?
A bit off topic, but: As severely flawed as that Ideology was/is imo(or at least its implementation), I bet at least it wouldn't have fostered ANY flat earthers(for instance). Here & now it seems we have millions, & in this day & age of information mind you. "Free speech" is great & all, & apparently so are the "rights" to choose such dogmatic dumbassery & douchebaggery.
Did you hear the part of how the politicians policed the humanities academics and how Stalin wrote a linguistics book? In a free society anyone can make arguments against nonsense. In socialist states the nonsense is enforced by heavy-handed communist parties.
I think a few flat earthers is a price worth paying lol
It's kinda weird hearing Frenkel complaining about his unfair treatment in commie schools, given the context of the evil communist regime at the time (and the ever-present statism that still exists today). Ie. being cheated or banned from statist schools is nothing compared to the real physical violence inflicted on people. Frenkel was slightly critical of the gov in this interview (talking about empty store shelves), but I'm not sure he understands how evil the system actually was (being banned from state-schools is not actually evil), or that he understands how evil statism is. (What % of his income is derived from state violence?)
He was the one who started talking about politics and injustice (while avoiding huge elephants in the room). Had he left it to purely math-talk, I wouldn't have made my comment. He chose to step into the politcal/moral arena.