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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Contributor(s): Frenkel, Edward (Author)

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ISBN: 0465064957     ISBN-13: 9780465064953
Publisher: Basic Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Mathematics | Number Theory
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" L (0.65 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/08/2015 pg. 28
 
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An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics

What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.

In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space.

Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.

At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.

 
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