- Mathematics, Mathematicians, Biography, Miscellanea
"Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program.
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- Author
- Edward Frenkel
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Paloma, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, tur, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9786059200042
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Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel (Russian: Эдуáрд Влади́мирович Фре́нкель, sometimes spelled Э́двард Фре́нкель) is a Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of the bestselling book *Love and Math*. *--Wikipedia* Photo Attribution: *Eget værk, Søren Fuglede Jørgensen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons*
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