Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

By Edward Frenkel and Edward Frankel

Book Overview

An awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465050743
• ISBN13: 9780465050741
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Parts discussing mathematical theories are incomprehensible to a layperson

There were some interesting parts, but the narrative structure is not effective and I did not find Frenkel to be adept at explaining much of the mathematical material at a level accessible to a layperson. The lack of accessibility makes his concluding statement about math as a uniting force very hollow given that he cannot present mathematical theory in a way that is understandable to probably 60-70% of the world's population.