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LOVE & MATH

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What if you had to take an art class in which you were taught only
how to paint a fence, but were never shown the paintings of van
Gogh or Picasso? 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 weve never seen, suffused with all the
beauty and elegance of a work of art. Mathematics, he writes,
directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and
curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the
biggest stars.
Awarded the 2015 Euler Book Prize, Love and Math tells two
intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one
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young mans journey learning and living it. Having braved a

discriminatory educational system to become one of the twentyfirst centurys leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on
one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years:
the Langlands Program, considered by many to be a Grand
Unified Theory of mathematics.
At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of

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thinking, which empowers us to better understand the world and

our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the hidden magic
universe of mathematics.
A New York Times bestseller, Love and Math has been published
in 16 languages. Apart from the English language original, it has
been published in Brazil (where it was on the non-fiction
bestseller list for several weeks), Germany (Amazon bestseller),
Italy, Poland, France (Amazon bestseller), Russia (science
bestseller), Japan (non-fiction bestseller list), Spain (No.3 on the
non-fiction bestseller list), Portugal (No.3 on a general bestseller
list), Korea, Holland, Turkey, Vietnam, Greece, and Hungary.

What people are saying about Love & Math

Powerful, passionate and inspiring.
Amir Alexander, The New York Times
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locks A Mathematical Romance by Jim Holt Brilliance Triumphs over Rejection by

Proof of Passion by Marcus du Sautoy Love and Math: a modern Russian love

t into The conviction that mathematics has a

Amir Alexander Believing that

Frenkel deftly takes the reader from the

mathematics is a common human

beginnings of this mathematical symphony Frenkels book Love and Math is, quite

reality that transcends the human mind is

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Sample Chapters

Preface to the Book

The Holy Grail of Quantum

Physics on Your Kitchen Table

The Fifth problem: math & anti- Maths et Antismitisme

Semitism in the Soviet Union
Moscou au Temps du
Communisme

Theres a secret world out there. A hidden

In this excerpt from his new book, Love and When I was growing up in the Soviet Union LORSQUE jtais jeune, dans les annes

parallel universe of beauty and elegance,

Math, University of California, Berkeley,

intricately intertwined with ours. Its the

professor Edward Frenkel uses the Russian boring subject.1 I could solve all of the

in the 1980s, I thought math was a stale,

1980 en URSS, je pensais que les maths

taient un sujet dpass et ennuyeux. Je

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Hungarian translation

Greek translation

Vietnamese translation

Turkish translation

Published in January, 2016

Published in December 2015

Published in December 2015

Published in November 2015

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Edward Frenkel is a professor of

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mathematics at the University of

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California, Berkeley, member of the

American Academy of Arts and

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Sciences, and the winner of the

Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical
physics. He is the author of a New York
Times bestseller Love and Math which
has been published in 16 languages.

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