Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored 3 books and over 90 scholarly articles in academic journals, and he has lectured on his work around the world. His YouTube videos have garnered millions of views. Frenkel's latest book "Love and Math" was a New York Times bestseller, has been named one of the Best Books of the year by both Amazon and iBooks, and won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. It has been published in 19 languages. Frenkel co-produced, co-directed (with Reine Graves) and played the lead in the film "Rites of Love and Math". He has also written (with the author Thomas Farber) a screenplay for a full-length feature film "The Two-Body Problem".