![]() ![]() ![]() As is true for all the great Russian novels, you will find in Frenkel's tale that one person's individual story of love and overcoming adversity provides both a penetrating lens on society and a revealing mirror into the human mind." ― Keith Devlin, Huffington Post Love and Math is Edward Frenkel's Lara poems. "With every page, I found my mind's eye conjuring up a fictional image of the book's author, writing by candlelight in the depths of the Siberian winter like Omar Sharif's Doctor Zhivago in the David Lean movie adaptation of Pasternak's famous novel. is three things: a Platonic love letter to mathematics an attempt to give the layman some idea of its most magnificent drama-in-progress and an autobiographical account, by turns inspiring and droll, of how the author himself came to be a leading player in that drama." ― New York Review of Books ![]() " Love and Math is a book by a very brilliant Russian-born mathematician, Edward Frenkel, who tells his life story while he's telling you some of the fundamentals of mathematics in language that interested laypeople can understand."― Moshe Safdie, New York Times, Sunday Review "Powerful, passionate and inspiring."― New York Times ![]()
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