http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/xj9d66/edward-frenkel

Great guy.

 

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/xj9d66/edward-frenkel

Great guy.

Excellent, excellent video nsaspook... thanks for sharing!

 

Excellent, excellent video nsaspook... thanks for sharing!

Ditto


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Damn it I can't watch it without hooking up to a WIFI in another country and it's not on Youtube.

 

I'd embrace math too, if she looked like that!

 

 

http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/in-mathematics-mistakes-arent-what-they-used-to-be

“Computers are good—and generally much better than humans—at what they are designed to do,” says Frenkel, author of Love and Math. “And that is computation ... But we must realize that mathematical research is not about numbers or calculations. It is about finding connections between things that are seemingly disconnected, it’s about seeing the invisible. That can not be achieved by computation alone. As a professional mathematician, I can tell you that mathematical discoveries come to us as insights. At the actual moment of discovery, you actually stop thinking. Like an artist, you connect to something that lies far beyond logic, thinking, and computation. And that’s the beauty of math.”