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The Times version —
Two mathematicians, Barry Mazur and Edward Frenkel, have, for rhetorical effect, badly misrepresented the history of some basic fields of mathematics. Mazur and Frenkel like to emphasize the…
Headline at the Toronto Star on Friday, March 27, 2015: Robert Langlands: The Canadian who reinvented mathematics “He’s like a modern-day Einstein.” Apparently, unlike God, Langlands würfelt . * See…
Edward Frenkel in The New York Times , in an op-ed piece dated Feb. 20, 2015 — "… I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as…
On Edward Frenkel: "Math is, for him, 'a narrative' of human endeavor that shares much with art, music and religion. For instance, he describes new mathematical insights as…
A reply in the March 8 LA Times to the opinion piece by Edward Frenkel discussed here yesterday— "It is completely wrong to imply that Euclidean geometry is somehow…
A search today for Edward Frenkel's phrase "portals into the magic world of modern math" leads to a reprint of his March 2 LA Times opinion piece in…
Edward Frenkel in a vulgar and stupid LA Times opinion piece, March 2, 2014 — "In the words of the great mathematician Henri Poincare, mathematics is valuable because 'in…
(Continued from yesterday afternoon) This journal on December 12th, 2009— Cover illustration— Arithmetic and Music, Borgia Apartments, The Vatican Compare and contrast with Frenkel at the Fields Institute—