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Today Russian-born Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel is regarded as one of the world's rising stars of mathematics, but his academic career did not begin promisingly: Barred from Moscow State University because of anti-Semitic restrictions, he was forced to enroll instead at the lowly Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. He didn't let that stop him: Even before he had clutched his Harvard doctorate in hand, he was raising waves with his breakthroughs in advanced theory. His Love and Math is not, however, a tome only for the few. Instead, it is an eye-opening, awe-inspiring, surprisingly accessible testimonial about the journey of one man and the beauty of mathematics.
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A New York Times Science Bestseller
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, 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, ...