A review by elephant
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel

3.0

Interesting autobiography, incomprehensible math. The author of this book claims that he wrote the book for people with no background in mathematics. He was a failure in that. Most people - even those with a background in mathematics, would likely not understand parts of this book. I personally found the autobiography of his difficulties getting into college in Russia because of the anti-semitism there and the help he received to advance through college and eventually end up at Harvard very interesting. I think it is great that there are people like him who understand and enjoy math and study it so that the rest of us may benefit from their knowledge. I totally did not understand most of the math that the author explained in this book and I am a college graduate, but not a math major. I did learn a few things - like the fact that the term torus refers to a donut shape - or as I prefer - bagel shape. I received this book free to review from Netgalley.