EAN: 9780465064953

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

A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat 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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