{"id":232567,"date":"2026-03-04T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mysteries-of-math-and-the-langlands-program-episode-1"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:08:46","slug":"mysteries-of-math-and-the-langlands-program-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mysteries-of-math-and-the-langlands-program-episode-1","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of Math and the Langlands Program \u2014 Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wbjp1RiF9vU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first in a series of 4 lectures by Edward Frenkel filmed at MSRI, Berkeley and broadcast on the Japanese TV channel NHK in the Fall of 2015 in the \u201cLuminous Classroom\u201d series. The lectures went from elementary topics such as Pythagoras theorem, prime numbers and symmetries to Fermat\u2019s last theorem and the general Langlands conjectures, and to the recent work connecting the Langlands Program to Quantum Physics. Even though the Intro is in Japanese, the lecture itself is in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first in a series of 4 lectures by Edward Frenkel filmed at MSRI, Berkeley and broadcast on the Japanese TV channel NHK in the Fall of 2015 in the \u201cLuminous Classroom\u201d series. The lectures went from elementary topics such as Pythagoras theorem, prime numbers and symmetries to Fermat\u2019s last theorem and the general Langlands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}