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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Hardcover – October 1, 2013

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; 2nd Printing edition (October 1, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0465050743
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465050741
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (216 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsBest suited for math lovers
By Irfan A. Alvi on December 20, 2013
Format: Hardcover
First of all, let's be honest and not mislead the general reader - this book covers a lot of highly advanced math. The author, Edward Frenkel, likely does as well as anyone could to outline the math in a way that a non-specialist audience can usefully grasp if they put in considerable effort and re-reading, but even then the reader needs to be comfortable with math at least at the undergrad level (calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, etc.). Don't expect to really 'understand' what Frenkel is talking about unless you have considerably greater math background, say grad school level and prior familiarity with the particular areas of math Frenkel covers.

Being an engineer, I fall into the former category and came to this book already loving math, and I found the math in this book to often be quite tough going (especially in the second half of the book), though I did get a rough sense of what he was talking about (and I followed the advice to keep going in the tougher parts rather than getting bogged down). True, I could re-read the whole book to get a better understanding, but realistically it would make more sense to bone up on the prerequisite math using other books and then return to this book in a few years (yes, that long). Because I feel that the accessibility of this book for the general reader has been overstated by the book's endorsers and overestimated by the author, I'm deducting a star.

That said, I did enjoy this book greatly and am glad that I read it.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat's love got to do with it?
By Aaron C. Brown TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 26, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Edward Frenkel is one of the great mathematicians in the world, and in this book he voices an ancient complaint: "Intelligent people would never say, 'I don't care about art, or music. But it is totally okay to say, 'I hate math.'" The usual antidote is to show people that math can be fun and useful as in The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, or even exciting and sexy as in Numb3rs. Another species of popular math books and movies (such as Perfect Rigor, Pi, A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting) imply (in Frenkel's words), "a mathematician is on the verge of a mental illness."

Love and Math takes a novel approach. The author loves math with a deep intensity that has animated an extraordinary life story, and he has the rare ability to explain why. The only comparable work I know is Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsI love math and really wanted to love this book but...
By Salvatore R. Mangano on January 4, 2014
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In the preface Frenkel hooks you by explaining that all the Math you ever learned in school was only a small part of the story and most of us have never been shown the masterpieces. He makes the analogy of learning about art without ever being shown a da Vinci or Picasso. There is truth to this. But as the book progresses Frenkel drags the reader through murkier and murkier waters until all but the most well schooled mathematician could hope to see but a fraction of what Frankel is trying to show.

It also does not help that Frankel writes badly. His prose is truly boring and uninspired. So even the autobiographical parts of the book, which the non-mathematician could easily follow, are tough to slog through.

I do give the author credit for the choice of subject matter. Group Theory, Topology, Reimann Surfaces and ties to Quantum Physics and String Theory are some of the jewels of Mathematics. However, Frenkel lacks what many genius mathematicians lack: empathy. He is unable to empathize with the plight of the mathematically unsophisticated reader and hence leave even the motivated lost, dazed and confused.
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4.0 out of 5 starsJust skip what you don't understand-- you will enjoy this anyway
By Roberta Silver on November 27, 2013
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Although much of the Mathematics (especially in the endnotes) is beyond my capability (even though I have a graduate degree in Math) the story of how this man fell in love with Math, overcame the anti-semitism in the Soviet educational system to become a Mathematician, and sought connections both within Mathematics and between Mathematics and Physics is fascinating and vividly told. My advice to the reader-- just skip what you don't understand. There is enough here without that to make for interesting reading.
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