WSU Master Class: Mathematics, The Language of Nature with Edward Frenkel Course 

My hearing is not good. I'm sure this contributed to my difficulty in following parts of what he was saying. And I'm sorry to report that I've stopped before half way, in order to write this.

At timestamp 37:23, he uses the butterfly wings as an example of a symmetrical arrangement where the two wings can be exchanged. Unless the underside of the wings is identical to the top side, the wings could not be exchanged, so it would be a bad example. Do we have a lepidopterist to decide the issue ?

His videos on Numberphile are legit. Him and Brian together would be epic as well.

Although mathematics is great, it is not the biggest achievement of humanity. That one is the creation of the alphabet a few thousand years ago. Even today languages are extremely potent tool in computer science and they are the reason of the so called information revolution. Humans discovered how to talk to machines using a specific alphabet or language. I wonder what is next ? Who will discover the correct alphabet for communicating with the animals. I rather leave animals alone because humans always tend to manipulate and exploit others with language. As for mathematics...well mathematics is only a byproduct of the alphabet.

Does anyone know where to find the Robbert Dijkgraaf talk that Frenkel keeps referring to? Perhaps it is “The Past and Future of Unification,” which the WSF site says is coming soon…

This guy my favorite Mathematician of this era and i really admire his story especially the jump that he had gotten from Russia to Harvard :))

I wish I paid attention to Mathematics in high-school

@5:00 'I solved grand unification and all I got was this lousy T-shirt' (He said that all of the equations could probably fit on two sides of a T-shirt)

_The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve._ -Eugene Wigner _There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world._ -Nikolai Lobachevsky *_1_* Math is the language of science and thus the foundation of the scientific method. *_2_* Without *_math_* we couldn’t have science, without science we couldn’t have technology, without technology we couldn’t have phones, radios, TVs, satellites, computers, the Internet, RU-vid...and without science and technology we couldn't have medicine. *_3_* Science works! Pseudoscience doesn't! 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

Maybe we are apart of a fractal and we are observing Earth 2 dimensional but in thought 3 dimensional and thinking about thinking about Earth is 4th dimensional and with collective thought creates a hologram effect…maybe we are nothing more than a coding language and the programmer is God

About Evariste Galois ...brilliant but had no common sense RIP. No telling what he would have accomplished. Luckily we had Euler who being stuck in a cold palace in Russia with 13 kids, had no better option than becoming the all time Number One mathematician on the planet. He left behind 800 manuscripts, they are still in the process of transcribing them. But I am digressing...proceed.

In ancient Chinese philosophy (Laotzi), there is a metaphysical explanation of the universe: the Way give rise to 1, 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 3 to everything. That line haunted me in my dreams till I learned about chaos, symmetry, the number i, and here I am.

Wsu please release more master class sessions

Impressed and a litlle jeaoulus,...Very good..

Love this!!! Not boring at all!!!

Sir may i work in ur garden???

You shouldn't be blind to next

Mathematics is the language of science. Forget all that New Age pseudoscience nonsense.

really inspiring fascinating talk which help me to take mathematics to more people .

-Mathematics one, two, three, many, end of story right? -Actually, that is only a set... -(Here we go...)

looking forward to more maths lectures without reference to physics CHEERS 🍺🍺🍺🍺

Maybe I just don't have the right math experience to appreciate this presentation, but it seemed to me that Mr. Frenkel was describing things in an intentionally confusing or baffling manner. As far as I can discern, these groups are completely arbitrary and determined by humans, not floating around in the natural world waiting for us to write them down in the correct sequence. I really wanted to like this video, as I enjoy most of the content that WSF offers, but I just felt this particular video ventured off into abstract territory without any reason to do so.

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"The conquest of nature can be achieved through measures and numbers." -Angelic Apparition ;)

Brilliant! Really want to hear more on symmetry and category theories.

What a mind opening lecture

Mathematics is NOT the Language of what you call Nature, but rather Mathematics, is a human language, trying to explain All...

Ellur the mathematical Gangstar

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