" Love and Math = fast-paced adventure story + intimate memoir + insider's account of the quest to decode a Rosetta Stone at the heart of modern math. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics. 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. 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.
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. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. 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. 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 Love and Math, Frenkel shows readers the aesthetic-and the truly powerful-side of mathematics, and enables appreciation of the field even from those who have long been terrified by it."-īook Synopsis 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.
And the process of creating new mathematics is just that, an artistic pursuit-a deeply personal experience, which requires passion, dedication, and love. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. About the Book "Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it.
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