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Math professor Edward Frenkel discusses his work on string theory & the Langlands Program while reflecting on the profound themes of infinity, death, and trauma.

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- Angela Collier on String Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

- Mike Wallace's Interview of Aldous Huxley (1958): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40

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TIMESTAMPS:

- 00:00:00 Introduction

- 00:03:40 The Langlands Program

- 00:09:23 Love and Math: An ode to mathematics

- 00:13:09 Art as a two-way street (reciprocal nature of artistic expression)

- 00:18:28 The Weil conjectures

- 00:24:53 R...

Edward Frenkel: Infinity, String Theory, Death, The Self