Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden RealityBasic Books, 1 okt 2013 - 288 pagina's 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? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before. At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics. |
Inhoudsopgave
Kerosinka | |
Threads of the Solution | |
Apprentice Mathematician | |
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 | |
The Grand Unified Theory | |
Magic Numbers | |
Rosetta Stone | |
Being in the Loop | |
Epilogue | |
Glossary of Terms | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A-branes automorphic functions Betti numbers Borya braid group called Chapter circle group closed path complex numbers coordinates corresponding cubic equation curves degrees described dimension dimensional Drinfeld electromagnetic duality Evgeny Evgenievich exam example Feigin Fermat’s Last Theorem finite field formula Fuchs fundamental group Galois group gauge group gauge theories Gelfand geometric group G group of symmetries group SO(3 Harvard Hitchin moduli space idea integers inverse Kac–Moody algebras Kerosinka Langlands dual group Langlands Program Langlands relation Lie algebra Lie group manifold mathematicians mathematics Mekh-Mat mirror symmetry moduli space modulo monodromy Moscow natural number number field number theory numerical system objects obtain physicists plane polynomial prime number problem quantum field theories quantum physics quarks question rational numbers real numbers representations Riemann surface Rosetta stone rotation seminar sheaves Shimura–Taniyama–Weil conjecture sigma models solutions sphere talk threads torus turns two-dimensional vector space Weil’s Rosetta stone what’s Witten Yakov Isaevich