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A review by nrome
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel
2.0
If you read the blurb of this book you might expect an exposition of some of the beautiful ideas in maths that Edward Frenkel works with and some surprising applications in a fun pop-science type way. That's not really what you're getting here.
It switches between a biography of the author's career and a whirlwind tour of braid groups and more high level algebraic geometry. I think it was over ambitious to expect to present the latter in any approachable way in such a short, informal pace. The most interesting parts of the book instead are when Frenkel describes his time as a Jewish man in the Russian education system and as a recent immigrant in America. This is a tough read but there were a few interesting anecdotes along the way.
It switches between a biography of the author's career and a whirlwind tour of braid groups and more high level algebraic geometry. I think it was over ambitious to expect to present the latter in any approachable way in such a short, informal pace. The most interesting parts of the book instead are when Frenkel describes his time as a Jewish man in the Russian education system and as a recent immigrant in America. This is a tough read but there were a few interesting anecdotes along the way.