Edward Frenkel
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During a talk at University of California, Berkeley in September 2010.
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| Born |
May 2, 1968 Kolomna, USSR (present-day Russia) |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Harvard University University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Gubkin University of Oil and Gas Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Bernstein |
| Known for | Contributions to the Langlands program Rites of Love and Math (film) Love and Math (book) |
| Notable awards | Hermann Weyl Prize (2002) |
Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel (Russian: Эдуард Владимирович Френкель, Эдвард Френкель; born 1968) is a mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of the bestselling book Love and Math.
Frenkel was born in Kolomna, Russia, to a German-Jewish father and a Russian mother. As a high school student he studied higher mathematics privately with Evgeny Evgenievich Petrov, although his initial interest was in quantum physics rather than mathematics. He was not admitted to Moscow State University because of discrimination against Jews and enrolled instead in the applied mathematics program at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. While a student there, he attended the seminar of Israel Gelfand and worked with Boris Lwowitsch Feigin and Dmitry Fuchs. After receiving his degree in 1989, he was first invited to Harvard University as a visiting professor, and a year later he enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1991, after one year of study, under the direction of Joseph Bernstein. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1991 to 1994, and served as an associate professor at Harvard from 1994 to 1997. He has been a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley since 1997.
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