Reviews

Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers - New Edition by Avner Ash, Robert Gross

bollu's review against another edition

4.0

I loved reading it. I felt it gave me an inkling of what the hell class field theory and the Langlands program is trying to do. Unfortunately, the pacing was pretty off. It starts by assuming you know nothing, and ends at Artinian reciprocity; I was lost 3/4th of the way through. It's hard to articulate why I got lost --- it felt like piling up intuition on intuition led to a sandpile that collapsed at some point. I'll have to try reading the book again now and see if it reads better.

Regardless, I loved the experience.

ankor's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0