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Sexual analogies ring a bell close to our hearts that despite the vagueness most people seem to understand. Here is the trailer from his youtube site. Unfortunately the film is not available through the inline rental services I use so I cant tell you any more about it. The book ends with a chapter about his controversial short film “Rites of Love and Math.” This is said to have made Frenkel something of a sex symbol among mathematcians, certainly a new idea. I cant say how a complete novice would find it but young math students would surely find inspiration and useful knowledge here and others can skip the details and enjoy the human side of the story. For someone like myself who is already familiar with the standard methods but not with all the recent progress this is light and enjoyable reading right up to the final chapters where he described his work with Ed Witten on geometric Lamglands. The tale of his progress from school to Harvard professor is interwoven with potted lessons in group theory as he had to learn it to solve the problems posed by his mentors. Luckily such difficulties were compensated for by a system of informal mentoring by some of Russia’s greatest mathematicians that supported the most promising young students like Frenkel. Despite glowing exam results from high school he was not permitted to attend Moscow University and has to settle for another college more geared to industrial engineering. In “Love and Math” Frenkel recounts his voyage of discovery with details of the maths and the equally fascinating story of his passage through the education system of Russia in the 1980s where he faced ridiculous obstacles placed in his way simply because his family name is Jewish. I have always found that the most engaging books in popular science are the ones written by those who were closest to the discoveries themselves and this book is an excellent example. , While some of these authors are maths professors their popular books cover stories of mathematical problems solved by others.
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There are some great maths books by Marcus de Sautoy, Ian Stewart, Simon Singh etc. You cant really play the trick of skipping all the equations or the details because these are really the essence of what makes mathematics so beautiful to those who master it.Įven rarer are such books written by the people who are at the bleeding edge of current mathematical research. It is hard to write a mathematics book that will appeal to the masses. Popular books about mathematics are rare compared to areas of science such as particle physics, cosmology or even biology. “There is a secret world out there.” This is the beginning of Edward Frenkels book about his mathematics and his story of how he fell in love with it.