Research Catalog

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."--

Subjects

• Miscellanées
• Autobiographies
• Trivia and miscellanea
• Biographies
• miscellanies
• SCIENCE / Quantum Theory
• SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics
• MATHEMATICS / Number Theory
• MATHEMATICS / Group Theory
• Mathematics > Miscellanea
• Mathematicians > United States > Biography
• Frenkel, Edward, 1968-

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