Love and math : the heart of hidden reality / Edward Frenkel.

"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 La...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Frenkel, Edward, 1968- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
Subjects:	Frenkel, Edward, > 1968- Mathematicians > United States > Biography. Mathematics > Miscellanea. MATHEMATICS / Group Theory. MATHEMATICS / Number Theory. SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics. SCIENCE / Quantum Theory. Autobiographies.
Genre:	Biography. Miscellanea. Autobiographies.
Physical Description:	292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

A mysterious beast
The essence of symmetry
The fifth problem
Kerosinka
Threads of the solution
Apprentice mathematician
The Grand Unified Theory
Magic numbers
Rosetta Stone
Being in the loop
Conquering the summit
Tree of knowledge
Harvard calling
Tying the sheaves of wisdom
A delicate dance
quantum duality
Uncovering hidden connections
Searching for the formula of love.