Much. Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen thank you so much. cheers and applause folks, thank you so much for being here on nice to be here on such a special night. I just had a new child. And its the easiest birth ive ever had. Welcome to the family, avery. Nation, we are just cheers and applause stephen folks, we are just 100 days away from being 845 days away from the 2016 president ial election. And the gop field is already full of strong contenders forming committees to explore the possibility of talking to their families about maybe vacationing in iowa this year. laughter the candidate ive been pinning my hopes on is jeb bush, hes a strong leader whose victory would return dignity to the white house and relevance to my sadly this past weekend jeb shot himself in the foot which would have been a ringing endorsement of gun rights if he hadnt also said this about illegal immigrants. They cross the border because they have no other means to work, to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but its not a felony. Its kind of its an act of love. laughter stephen he will be missed. laughter because republican primary voters know that illegal immigration is not an act of love, sir. It is illicit filthy act of border penetration. No love involved. It is sweaty and it is frantic. And odds are it is happening in the back of a truck. laughter the only love going on here is the immigrants love for american Jobs Education and health care. I say if immigrants loved their families so much then why does my housekeeper never seem to go home to her kids. Shes always with mine. By the way, rosita, i need you to stay late tonight. Dont get me wrong, folks, immigration is what made this country great. But only when its the results of potato famine or however black people got here. I dont know. Nice try, jeb, its over. Nation, i never bow in the face of criticism, i am the face of criticism. This is tip of the hat, wag of the finger. cheers and applause nation, nation, if you watch this show, i know you do, i know that i dont trust the new york times, except the wedding announcements. It is the final confirmation of what the couples instagram, facebook, twitter and save the date only hinted at. And now the announcement page got even announcier. Because sandwiched in between all the notices of marriage they recently introduced a new column called unhitched which shares stories of divorce. It is sweet, isnt it . laughter the most recent column featured john and patty reid who got married in the 80s but began drifting apart. John laments our love want Strong Enough to break down the walls between us. Apparently john met a woman. At first the relationship was businessrelated but it became romantic. Thats a nice clipping for the scrapbook for two of the three people involved. laughter so im giving a tip of the hat to the new york timess for keeping it real. cheers and applause now quick message, quick message to the newlyweds whose nuptials were featured in the times. The bad news is statistically half of your marriages will end in divorce. The good news is you will have another chance to be profiled by the new york times. For an occasional story in the corn are of the page is not enough there should be an entire section of divorce announcement, Brad Bernstein and Jennifer Chen were divorced friday in an uncivil ceremony at the law offices of chens father said quote thank god there were no children. Lev laugh and for that matter, for that matter, why are newlyweds and the divorced hogging all the limelight. What about celebrating the millions of married couples who are simply making it work by printing still married announcements. Mark hefner and his wife marie are pleased to announce they continue to be married. Are they always happy, no. Is it work with kids, you bet your ass it is. Marie has a fulltime job too so why is he is the one taking the kids to soccer practice, oh, here we go, get out the chalk and the blackboard because i know youre keeping score. Im sorry, im sorry, im just tired. Anyway mark and marie basically enjoy each Others Companies and isnt that the most you can hope for . applause get on it, new york times. I want this, i want this still married announcement to be printed for the same reason all marriage announcements are werented, to make the people you know jealous. Next up, folks, i love hunting. Partly its the thrill of stalking prey but mostly its the love of alcohol and public urination. And i love every innovation in hunting which is why im giving a wag of my finger to the alaska board of games which just voted to mak make assisted hunting illegal by banning using a drone to fly above trees to look for a moose or a bear. What am i supposed to do, go into the woods myself. There might be a moose or a bear in there laughter and listen, just listen to their lame reason. Alaskas board of game says drones give hunters an unfair advantage. Stephen since when is hunting about fairness . If it was fair, we would meet the moose in the middle of a field, flip a coin and the winner gets the gun. So lift this ban, alaska, and allow americans to fulfill the dream of every outdoorsman bagging a pa jess particular 12 point buck from the comfort of his own toilet. Finally, on timpicay mother wager a new warning has been announced with a car with 16 valves, four cylinders and thousands of leg legs. Mad da mazda is recalling 42,000 cars because of potential danger caused by spiders. The automaker says the insects are drawn by the smell of gasoline and then they build webs inside the vent hose. That causes the fuel tank to crack, increasing the risk of fuel leches and fires. Stephen thats right. Once again, mankind faces a threat of gas huffing spiders. laughter which brings me to a tip of the hat to mazda whose handling of this issue is as smooth as the handling of the mazda 64 sedan, maz da, its got spiders in it. Now mazda quick to explain applause mazda quickly explained that no injuries or fires have been reported due to the issue. And you can trust mazda as experts on the spider issue because theyve had plenty of practice. Back in 2011 mazda recalled cars for the same problem. You know what they say, a car full of spiders once, shame on you. Car full of spiders twice, oh god, the spiders are back. Now at this point cheers and applause at this point when you buy a paz da, spiders are just a dealer option. So you want an undercoating . No, how about the spiders, no . Okay, i can remove the spiders for 500 but i will have to ask my manager first. Now if you ares a mazda owner affected by this recall, do not worry because mazda will update your Cars Software for free to insurance that the fuel tank pressure doesnt build up. Yes, you still have the spiders, but now you can use the hov lane. Well be right back. cheers and applause if you can pack this much irony into one moment. Then we can pack full 7up flavor into only ten calories. Thats the power of ten. 7up ten. Also in these brands. Co until youre sure you do. You need a hotel room bartender thanks, captain obvious. Co which is why i put the hotels. Com mobile app on my mobile phone. Anyone need a coupon . Stephen welcome back, everybody, thank you so much. Folks, primary season is upon us and coy not be more excited. Foinlly a chance to see some fresh new faces being bankrolled by the same old faces. laughter and folks, no needs freshening more than mitch mcconnell. I have recently always been opposed to mitch mcconnell. He claims to be a small government conservative, yet he works for the United States senate, step aside sir, thankfully mcconnell is facing a strong primary challenge from Kentucky Tea Party darling matt bevin, this will be his closest race since he beat that hair. But now, but now the liberal, you all know the liberal kentucky media is going after my man bevin just because he spoke at a cockfighting rally. Folks, thats just good politics. A candidate has to reach all constituencies. Soccer moms, cockfighting dads, bear baiting uncles, horsewhipping sisters in law, and personally i was thrilled when i heard about bevins connection to gamecocker. Long time viewers of the report know something know im soving a cock enthusiast. There is no greater rush than watching a filipino blue face go beak to beak with a chinese silke, the smell of the dust, the gleam of the blade, the call of pepe the toothless bookie. It is the sweet science followed shortly by the savory soup. But apparently, and i did not know this, some socalled americans oppose making roosters fight to the death. They prefer their poultry to be remain lee crammed into a crate and compassionately beheaded by a homicidal conveyer belt. So now attack chickens are circling matt bevin with the Humane Society calling for him to withdraw from the race. Thankfully, bevin has a perfectly reasonable explanation for why he spoke at the cockfighting rally. He did not realize the event had anything to do with cockfighting. I mean how how could he how coknow the event was hosted by the american gamefoul defense network. That name could mean anything. I mean it could be about giving asought rifles to roosters. I would pay to see that. And as bevin pointed outlive on the trail moves too fast to notice details like who you are talking to. Jim . I was the first person to speak and then i had to boogie because i had to get to owensboro where i was also speaking at an unbrideeled liberty rally. Stephen yes, hes moving all over the state, speaking here, speaking there, his handlers drive him aerpd in a windowless van with a bag on his head and whip it off and he just goes for it liberty, and then back in the bag. And applause and as a member of the tea party, bevin wants everyone to know that the repugnant practice of cockfighting which he in no way condones is also a proud american tradition. When you look at cockfighting and dogfighting as well. This isnt something new. The Founding Fathers were all, many of them actively involved in this and always have been. Stephen yes. They all, they were actively involved in cockfighting and always have been. Which means there must be cockfighting in heaven. Though technically they strap burrs on the angels and make them go at it. The point is, our founders did it. It is our heritage. And should continue today. The same reason we should all be dualing with pistols and boning our slaves. So layoff matt bevin. He does not condone it but if you are going to hold a rally to support cockfighting, he will be there and not know why. Well up. A short word thats a tall order. Up your game. Up the ante. And if you stumble, you get back up. Up isnt easy, and we ought to know. Were in the business of up. Everyday delta flies a quarter of Million People while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. Were raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. Hard work, work there you go. 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Com, even bullhorns. How much . [ male announcer ] now get 50 off marketing materials. Staples. Make more happen. Stephen hey, welcome back, everybody. My guest tonight is a mathematician who has a new book out about love and math. Ill ask him if one is the loneliest number. Please welcome edward frenkel. cheers and applause thank you very much. cheers and applause thank you very much. Sometimes these people deserve a double dip. Now you deserve it too. Thank you very much. Stephen as do you because are you an very impressive guy but in ways that i dont think im qualified to judge, okay. Because you need know introduction, obviously but i will do it they way, you are a professor of mathematics at the Call University of california berkly. I dont have to tell people here that you actually worked on the cac moody algebras applause also you defined the quantum drimfeld sokolov production and described the center of the universal developing algebra of a walking module to great a Ground Breaking Frenkel Alpha morphism. cheers and applause stephen huge, huge, the people here, they are more feldman fans than frenkel. It is like red wine, you can enjoy sometimes. So i think they are fans. Stephen perhaps over a piece of poached salmonment you have a new book called love and math, the heart of hidden reality. What the hell does love have to do with math because spoiler alert, i think its and i will tell you why, because math doesnt care about my opinion. Why should i love it. Well, thank you for saying that, stephen. Because i hear it quite often. Even from supersmart and superintelligent people who would never say i hate art. Or i hate music. Stephen i hate some art, some music. But its okay in our society to say i hate math. Stephen so math is like art to you. Math is like art. But the good news is that when you say i hate math, its not your fault. Stephen whose fault is because i love blaming people for things. Its my fault. Stephen your fault. I should have written this book a long time ago. Stephen so if i read this i will love math. I hope so. When people say i hate math, what you really saying is i hate the way mathematics was taught to me. Imagine in art class. In which they teach you only how to paint a fence or a wall but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course years later you will say i hate art. What you would really be saying is i hate painting a fence. And so it is with math. When people say i hate math, what they are really saying is i hate painting a fence. Stephen but in math dont i have to know a fair amount of high end math to appreciate the work of the masters. Its almost as if, you know, yes, you could show me a painting by a master, but i dont have eyeballs yet. Dont you need to sort of grow the math eyeballs to see the equations as beautiful . Thats our job. You know, one of my teachers a great teacher would say used to say, you know f you ask a drunkard which number is big two, twothirds or three fifths he wont tell you, but if you ask him what is better, two bottle of vodka for he will tell you right a wap. Two bottles. Course. So i try to. Stephen that is a level of math that perhaps only russians can do. applause true. I come from russia. Stephen yes. From russia with love. Stephen from russia with love. An math. Stephen now in russia, is math the same as it is here or over there is it 2 plus 2 is whatever putin says it is . Im not the one to speak for putin. Stephen yes, you might have to go back. I understand understand. Okay. You not only someone who writes passionately, you actually have performed passionately. You did a the right of love and math, an he rot oik journey into the beauty of numbers and the human form. Which features you naked and with equations on the body of your lover. Isnt that a little conservative for a professor at berkeley. What wouldnt i do to expose the beauty of mathematics. Stephen lets show the people you what did cheers and applause stephen i might have hit the books a little bit harder as a child am now is that for general audiences, can kids watch this. That would be a great way to get teenagers hooked on math. Well, we still want pie viewers to embrace mathematics, so be it. Stephen what were you writing on that poor womans stomach. What is that equation there . Well, in the film, the film. Stephen shes math i realize that. The film is about a love affair that is us doing mathematics, it is a love affair. And she represents the truth in mathematics which is we sacrifice ourselves. And the premise of the film is that the mathematician found the formula of love. The formula so powerful than he realized that he realized this could be used not only for good but also for ill. So then he understands that he has to protect the formula. He has to hide it. From the powers that be who could refuse it. Could refuse the formula and thats why he decides to tattoo it on the body of the woman he loves. Stephen and then, and then what happens to her . Do the bad guys chase her and you have to see the film. Stephen i saw some of it. I saw i cant actually show the pieces that had the naked butt in it. Do all mathematicians have an ass that high and tight . You must love them. Stephen i never did math and the results were disastrous. Edward frenkel, thank you so much. The book is love and math. I got no beef with repetition im gonna see it through and through i got no beef with repetition i feel the same way as you do i feel the same way as you do i feel the same way as you do if you dont get out there how will you tell people the fish you caught was twice as large as it actually was, hmmm . Go and smell the roses its like jacob here. Strong. Sturdy. [ shouts ] but not too sweet. [ male announcer ] built from apples. Come on, jacob built to refresh. Throw it to me smith forge hard cider. Made strong. Ohhh stephen thats it for the report, everybody captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org its 11 59 and 59 seconds, and this happened on barstool sports today. Thats the crowd of the superdome at wrestlemania 30 in new orleans. laughter no, they arent being told the concession stand wont accept marlboro miles. They are reacting to the undertakers 210 winning streak at westlemania coming to an abrupt end at the hand of former ufc champ, brock lesnar, proving to be a shock to everyone except for the writers who determined the outcome of this event three weeks ago in connecticut