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

A "powerful  passionate  and inspiring" ( New York Times)  journey through the beauty and power
of mathematics   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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