15 Facts About Edward Frenkel

Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel is a Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.

Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edward Frenkel was born on May 2,1968, in Kolomna, Russia, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Edward Frenkel's father is of Jewish descent and his mother is Russian.

Edward Frenkel was not admitted to Moscow State University and instead enrolled in the applied mathematics program at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas.

Edward Frenkel has been a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, since 1997.

Together with Nicolai Reshetikhin, Edward Frenkel introduced deformations of W-algebras and q-characters of representations of quantum affine algebras.

Edward Frenkel has been investigating connections between the geometric Langlands correspondence and dualities in quantum field theory.

Together with Pavel Etingof and David Kazhdan, Edward Frenkel introduced the analytic Langlands correspondence, a novel function-theoretic framework for the Langlands Program in the case of Riemann surfaces.

Edward Frenkel was the first recipient of the Hermann Weyl Prize in 2002.

In 2014, Edward Frenkel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Edward Frenkel has co-produced, co-directed and starred in a short film Rites of Love and Math, a homage to the film Rite of Love and Death by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Edward Frenkel has written a screenplay The Two-Body Problem.

Edward Frenkel has appeared on the Numberphile YouTube series, created by Brady Haran.

The Love of the title is much more about love of mathematics than love of another person, as Edward Frenkel provides a detailed story of what it is like to fall in love with mathematics, then pursue this deeply, ending up doing mathematics at the highest level.