Mathematician edward frenkel, author of love and math, joins rationally speaking to talk about how the subject seduced him as a young man, and how he believes its generally mistaught in schools. A public lecture given by edward frenkel, a professor at the university of california at berkeley, talking around his bestselling book love. Rs104 edward frenkel on love and math rationally speaking. He is a professor of mathematics at university of california, berkeley. Edward frenkel needs both a better agent and a better editor. The result is a story about how he became one of the twentyfirst centurys leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years. 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. If i had to sum up the book in one word, that word would be passion.
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Love and math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. A better agent would have had a hearttoheart talk with him about his objectives in writing this book. The heart of hidden reality public library a quest to unravel the secrets of the hidden parallel universe of beauty and elegance, intricately intertwined with ours, premised on the idea that math is just as valuable a part of our. He is the author of a new york times bestseller love and math which is being translated into 14 languages. Mathematics, he writes, directs the flow of the universe, lurks.
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Its a mustread for those who share the interests of this blogger, so go get a copy now. Edward frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the university of california, berkeley, member of the american academy of arts and sciences, and the winner of the hermann weyl prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel claims he wants to inspire a new generation of mathematicians, particularly by bridging the two cultures between the arts and science by using the powers of love and math. Mary karr, bestselling author of the liars club, cherry, and lit edward frenkels book love and math is, quite simply, a love story, one mans declaration of his love for, and romantic description of, the mistress that destiny assigned him. Fields of mathematics often, over time, become connected in surprising ways.
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