Edward Frenkel

Edward Frenkel, born on 2 May 1968 in Kolomna, Russia, is a Russian-American mathematician who works in representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics, and who has been a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1997. Denied a place at Moscow State University, he studied applied mathematics at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas, attended Israel Gelfand's seminar and worked with Boris Feigin and Dmitry Fuchs, then completed a Harvard doctorate in 1991 under Boris Feigin and Joseph Bernstein. With Feigin he built free field realizations of affine Kac-Moody algebras and described the center of their universal enveloping algebra, a result known as the Feigin-Frenkel isomorphism that Beilinson and Drinfeld later used for the geometric Langlands correspondence. His later work concerns the Langlands program, including the analytic Langlands correspondence developed with Pavel Etingof and David Kazhdan. He is also known for the book Love and Math, which won the 2015 Euler Book Prize.