![]() He tells about his “opportunity of a lifetime,” which brought him to Harvard University, where he earned his PhD and became the mathematician he is today.įrenkel gives the reader unusual insight into the life of a mathematician. Frenkel incorporates much of his life story, including details about the Russian anti-Semitism that prevented him from being accepted into the prestigious Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. Frenkel must introduce and discuss concepts that are typically covered in advanced undergraduate and graduate math classes. One goal of this book is to describe, in a nontechnical way, how the Langlands program is the “Rosetta Stone” connecting the fields of number theory, finite fields, Riemann surfaces and Quantum Physics. ![]() If you think math is hard, that you won’t get it, if you are terrified by math, but at the same time curious whether there is something there worth knowing - then this book is for you.” Love and Math contains a nice mixture of storytelling and expository description of mathematics. I wrote it for readers without any background in mathematics. ![]() Edward Frenkel writes “This book is an invitation to a rich and dazzling world. ![]()
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