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The Heart of Hidden Reality
Basic Books
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
304 pages
ISBN: 0465064957
EAN: 9780465064953
Kindle: B00BKRW5E6
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Hardcover (November 2013)
Non-Fiction
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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