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The Heart of Hidden Reality
Basic Books
November 2013
On Sale: October 30, 2013
306 pages
ISBN: 0465050743
EAN: 9780465050741
Kindle: B00BKRW5E6
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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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