Overview
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..
——From
amazon.com
内容简介
如果你不得不去上一门美术课，它却只是教你怎么油漆栅栏，你作何感想？如果你从未在美术课堂上见过凡·高和毕加索的画作，甚至根本不知道它们的存在，你又会作何感想？唉，这就是常见的数学教学方式，它导致我们中的大多数人都成了“坐等油漆干”的生物。
在《爱与数学》一书中，著名的数学家爱德华·弗伦克尔向我们展示了数学不为人知的一面，其中充满了如同艺术般的美和优雅。在这本用真诚和激情写就的书中，作者告诉我们，数学不是精英的玩具，它可以像爱一样超越文化、超越地域、超越时空，将世间万物联系在一起。
——转自出版社官方网站
About Edward Frenkel
Born: May 02, 1968
Эдуáрд Влади́мирович Фре́нкель, a
Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory,
algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. Now he is a professor of
mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined
in 1997. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
also the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. His
book Love and Math was a New York Times bestseller. Frenkel has also
co-produced, co-directed and played the lead in the film Rites of Love
and Math in 2010.
