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# Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

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Review: I read Love and Maths alongside Hacking’s “Why is there a Philosophy ... - Frenkel’s book deserves a much wider audience this side of the Atlantic than it currently has. I read Love and Maths alongside Hacking’s “Why is there a Philosophy of Maths at all”, and at least in the first few days, I persevered with the dual task until I eventually focused on Frenkel almost exclusively. I’ve now read the book twice and must admit to having been moved from being merely entertained to being seriously impressed. The title and the first few largely biographical chapters are, in truth, slightly misleading. Once Frenkel gets going, however, he impresses as a serious writer with no quarter given for the less than serious reader. But the “cost”, as can happen so often, is not clarity of accessibility. This last point is interesting. The way that Frenkel ensures no compromise is by providing, in the main body of the book, a fairly low lying terrain. Think of this as a strenuous but ultimately achievable trek up Kilamanjaro. Yes, you have to be able to breath the thin air, but there are no serious 5:5 stretches. You don’t need your climbing rope and crampons or ice pick. However, laced, literally page by page, are footnotes that are more like the diversion to K2. And what an amazing diversion. You can (if you want) be seriously addressed with credible mathematical discourses, and yet stay the course if you feel threatened. Its a smart way of delivering a superb read. Leaving aside this very clever mechanism, the heart of the book brings together a beautifully crafted exposition of the importance of the Langlands programme with a topical weft and weave of contemporary maths. A few months after I read the book a second time I had the chance to meet Frenkel very briefly. He is a disarming and charming man with a steely eyed determination to convey his feelings. The book is the same. Don’t be fooled by the title, and don’t give up in the foothills. The peaks are what count. You will be infected by the love of the subject that so many of us wish we could share with loads more people. I just hope the book gets more of an audience in Britain. Frenkel also wrote the obit for Grothendieck in the NY Times. Well worth the read for those who dont know a mathematician who may well deserve the title of the 20th century's greatest (and yes, I include Godel, Hilbert and Weyl et al in that comparison).
Review: Why do people love maths? - I enjoyed the book as it includes a mix of social history and mathematical concepts. I personally found that Edward was assuming that my understading of 'basic' concepts should be higher than it is in reality, and so maybe some ideas were too challenging for the average reader.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 638,973 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 17 in Algebra (Books) 21 in Popular Mathematical Theory 38 in Applied Mathematics (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (818) |
| Dimensions  | 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 0465050743 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0465050741 |
| Item weight  | 522 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 304 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Oct. 2013 |
| Publisher  | Basic Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read Love and Maths alongside Hacking’s “Why is there a Philosophy ...
*by W***G on 23 January 2015*

Frenkel’s book deserves a much wider audience this side of the Atlantic than it currently has. I read Love and Maths alongside Hacking’s “Why is there a Philosophy of Maths at all”, and at least in the first few days, I persevered with the dual task until I eventually focused on Frenkel almost exclusively. I’ve now read the book twice and must admit to having been moved from being merely entertained to being seriously impressed. The title and the first few largely biographical chapters are, in truth, slightly misleading. Once Frenkel gets going, however, he impresses as a serious writer with no quarter given for the less than serious reader. But the “cost”, as can happen so often, is not clarity of accessibility. This last point is interesting. The way that Frenkel ensures no compromise is by providing, in the main body of the book, a fairly low lying terrain. Think of this as a strenuous but ultimately achievable trek up Kilamanjaro. Yes, you have to be able to breath the thin air, but there are no serious 5:5 stretches. You don’t need your climbing rope and crampons or ice pick. However, laced, literally page by page, are footnotes that are more like the diversion to K2. And what an amazing diversion. You can (if you want) be seriously addressed with credible mathematical discourses, and yet stay the course if you feel threatened. Its a smart way of delivering a superb read. Leaving aside this very clever mechanism, the heart of the book brings together a beautifully crafted exposition of the importance of the Langlands programme with a topical weft and weave of contemporary maths. A few months after I read the book a second time I had the chance to meet Frenkel very briefly. He is a disarming and charming man with a steely eyed determination to convey his feelings. The book is the same. Don’t be fooled by the title, and don’t give up in the foothills. The peaks are what count. You will be infected by the love of the subject that so many of us wish we could share with loads more people. I just hope the book gets more of an audience in Britain. Frenkel also wrote the obit for Grothendieck in the NY Times. Well worth the read for those who dont know a mathematician who may well deserve the title of the 20th century's greatest (and yes, I include Godel, Hilbert and Weyl et al in that comparison).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Why do people love maths?
*by M***E on 26 February 2015*

I enjoyed the book as it includes a mix of social history and mathematical concepts. I personally found that Edward was assuming that my understading of 'basic' concepts should be higher than it is in reality, and so maybe some ideas were too challenging for the average reader.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A trip
*by A***N on 20 May 2016*

This is, comfortably, the best popular math book I’ve ever had the fortune to lay my eyes on. I have a couple degrees in the subject. One in applied math, that I studied in college, and one in pure math that I got twelve years later. Indeed, I coincided with the author at Harvard, and his description of the Math department in the Science Center, the ping pong table and that hidden gem of a library brought back memories of my first semester in college, which was largely spent poring over impossible math assignments. (It also reminded me of the rather poor personal hygiene of some of the guys there, which goes unmentioned in the book!) This is now my favorite popular math book. I don’t know math anymore, but I regardless LOVED LOVED LOVED reading this. The man has an unbelievable gift for explaining stuff and flattering you into thinking you understand it too. I can probably now blag about SO(3) and SU(2) and SU(3) and fibres and sheaves and fundamental groups with the best of them and I feel like I own the material (which of course I don’t.) For three days of my life I did math with Grothendieck and Gelfand, Drinfeld and Kac, basically, I sat there at the table with them. It was a massive high! A couple months ago, to resolve a dispute with an almost equally spent former mathematician, I wasted hours scouring the Internet to remind myself what the real meaning of the cross product is, to no avail. Frenkel slips the answer en passant on page 121: the tangent space to the unity element of a Lie group is a simpler construct called a Lie algebra. The Lie algebra of an n-dimensional Lie group is a vector space of dimension n, basically. Well, the operation under which 3D space is such an algebra is the cross product. Cool, eh? And so on. You close your eyes and you follow this boy, who grew up as a little dreamer in a city two hours out of Moscow and just wanted to know how the universe works. And you meet his teachers and take part in his search as he tries to solve the problem that consumed Einstein in the last 20 years of his life, that of coming up with a single theory that can reach beyond the “standard model” and also cover gravitation. You start with his first ever big triumph (something to do with the “knot groups,” which are explained beautifully) and you move on from there to the most intuitive ever explanation of Galois’ insight regarding the solution of polynomials (basically drawing an analogy between irrational numbers and imaginary numbers I wish somebody had told me about 30 years ago) and eventually you make it to the “Langlands problem” which I must admit went 101% over my head. But I had enough there to cheer the author on, all the way. The bit about the “equation of love” was beyond weird, of course, but I’m alright with it. Nobody forced me to read it. It was a bit as if somebody cooks you the best meal in history and then offers you the option of flamingo feather pie as desert: you don’t have to eat it. It did not undo the amazing first 228 pages, or that phenomenal set of notes in the back. Also, the guy loves math. It’s so evident, it’s infectious. And he gives you a very long warning that you cannot judge math from the abject crap that passes for math in the world’s high school curricula. He hated that too, despite the fact that he could do it. Math is the amazing construct that, whether we like it or not, surrounds us, underpins the physical world and is waiting for us to go, discover it and get the answers we seek. Chris Isham aside (who does not know me from Adam, but I once took his class), this is the most a man has ever inspired me to read math, and he did it from a book. What can I say? I’m not sure I’ve had more fun reading a book, frankly. Did not really learn anything, it would be beyond presumptuous to say so, but It flattered me so hard, I got a proper high. Thank you, Bernard, for suggesting this!

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