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LOVE AND MATH THE HEART OF HIDDEN REALITY - EDW...

A stunning  globe-spanning journey through the beauty and power of mathematics    “Powerful 
passionate  and inspiring.” — New York Times      A New York Times Bestseller     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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