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19%OFFEdward Frenkel - Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality - 9780465064953 - V9780465064953
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

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Description for Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGTA; PB; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
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. In this heartfelt and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465064953
SKU
V9780465064953
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About Edward Frenkel
Edward Frenkel is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty at Harvard University. The winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics, he has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, Slate, and the Scientific American blog.

Reviews for Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
"I don't know if I've ever used the words love and math together, but this book changed that. In the tradition of his heroes Andre Weil and C. N. Yang, Edward Frenkel writes of the objective beauty of numbers. Like musical notes, they exist apart from the mind, daring us to fathom their depths and assemble them in arcane narratives ... Read more

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