Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel is a mathematician specializing in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.

Born in 1968 in Russia to a Jewish family, he faced discrimination but pursued mathematics, studying privately and attending seminars at Moscow State University.

Frenkel earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1991 and became a professor at UC Berkeley in 1997.

His work focuses on the Langlands program and its connections to various mathematical fields and physics.

Frenkel has made significant contributions to affine Kac-Moody algebras and the geometric Langlands conjecture.

He co-produced and starred in a short film, "Rites of Love and Math," and authored the book "Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.".