Love and Math is Edward Frenkel's Lara poems. 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 Books 'With every page, I found my mind's eye conjuring up a fictional image of the book's author, writing by candlelight in the depths of the Siberian winter like Omar Sharif's Doctor Zhivago in the David Lean movie adaptation of Pasternak's famous novel. Reading this book, one is compelled to drop everything and give math another try to partake of the ultimate mystery.' -Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files A New York Times Science Bestseller 'Powerful, passionate and inspiring.' -New York Times ' winsome new memoir. Like musical notes, they exist apart from the mind, daring us to fathom their depths and assemble them in arcane narratives that tell the story of us. Yang, Edward Frenkel writes of the objective beauty of numbers. In the tradition of his heroes Andre Weil and C. 'I don't know if I've ever used the words love and math together, but this book changed that. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.

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 Fermat's 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. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it.

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.

A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat 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, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art.

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