Book : Love And Math The Heart Of Hidden Reality - Frenkel,.

-Titulo Original : Love And Math The Heart Of Hidden Reality

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An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics 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, werent 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 weve 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 mans journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first centurys 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 Fermats 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. Review A New York Times Science BestsellerPowerful, passionate and inspiring. New York TimesLove and Math is a book by a very brilliant Russian-born mathematician, Edward Frenkel, who tells his life story while hes telling you some of the fundamentals of mathematics in language that interested laypeople can understand. Moshe Safdie, New York Times, Sunday Review[Frenkels] winsome new memoir... is three things: a Platonic love letter to mathematics; an attempt to give the layman some idea of its most magnificent drama-in-progress; and an autobiographical account, by turns inspiring and droll, of how the author himself came to be a leading player in that drama. New York Review of BooksWith every page, I found my minds eye conjuring up a fictional image of the books author, writing by candlelight in the depths of the Siberian winter like Omar Sharifs Doctor Zhivago in the David Lean movie adaptation of Pasternaks famous novel. Love and Math is Edward Frenkels Lara poems... As is true for all the great Russian novels, you will find in Frenkels tale that one persons individual story of love and overcoming adversity provides both a penetrating lens on society and a revealing mirror into the human mind. Keith Devlin, Huffington PostLove and Math = fast-paced adventure story intimate memoir insiders account of the quest to decode a Rosetta Stone at the heart of modern math. It all adds up to a thrilling intellectual ride--and a tale of surprising passion. Steven Strogatz, Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, and author of The Joy of xThrough his fascinating autobiography, mathematician Edward Frenkel is opening for us a window into the ambitious Langlands Program--a sweeping network that interconnects many branches of mathematics and physics. A breathtaking view of modern mathematics. Mario Livio, astrophysicist, and author of The Golden Ratio and Brilliant BlundersThis very readable, passionately written, account of some of the most exciting ideas in modern mathematics is highly recommended to all who are curious lovers of beauty. David Gross, Nobel Laureate in PhysicsI dont know if Ive ever used the words love and math together, but this book changed that. In the tradition of his heroes Andre Weil and C. N. Yang, Edward Frenkel writes of the objective