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Love and math : the heart of hidden reality / Edward Frenkel.
- Title
- Love and math : the heart of hidden reality / Edward Frenkel.
- Author
- Frenkel, Edward, 1968-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- 292 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. And the process of creating new mathematics is just that, an artistic pursuit--a deeply personal experience, which requires passion, dedication, and love. In Love and Math, Frenkel shows readers the aesthetic--and the truly powerful--side of mathematics, and enables appreciation of the field even from those who have long been terrified by it."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- miscellanies.
- Autobiographies
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Miscellanées.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A mysterious beast -- The essence of symmetry -- The fifth problem -- Kerosinka -- Threads of the solution -- Apprentice mathematician -- The Grand Unified Theory -- Magic numbers -- Rosetta Stone -- Being in the loop -- Conquering the summit -- Tree of knowledge -- Harvard calling -- Tying the sheaves of wisdom -- A delicate dance -- quantum duality -- Uncovering hidden connections -- Searching for the formula of love.
- ISBN
- 9780465050741 (hardback)
- 0465050743 (hardback)
- 9780465069958 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013017372
- OCLC
- 849801108
- SCSB-11956509
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library