"Love And Math", By Edward Frenkel
Published on January 12th, 2025
Recently I've finished Frenkel's "Love and Math" and for sure this was an incredible book. I borrowed it in my cities library randomly, I'd already heard of it, but never looked up anything about it. First things first, seeing this book in my town's library was surprising since it is really small and there isin't many people interested in mathematics over here. As far as I've checked the last person who borrowed it did it almost 15 years ago, what is comprehensible. Reading it was certainly a pleasure.
For those who haven't read it yet, it tells Frank's story with mathematics and his research on the Langlands Program. Starting from his teenage years where he he first had contact with key concepts of the subject such as simmetry, then passing through his college life and research with Boris Feigin to his arrival at Harvard University and his research the book tells the entirety of the Langlands Program story and explains a little bit of the math involving it.
For me it is beautiful to see the intrinsic connections between different math fiels and even quantum physics. Mathematics seems to be an extra sense, as Darwin said in a quote shown in the book. It is also beautiful, there's something in mathematics that makes it atractible to the soul. I also loved to read Frenkel's autobiography. His story is truly interesting, especially his time in his homeland Russia and his first steps doing research.
To be honest, I'm not the proper person to explain the math in the book so I invite you to read it yourself and be amazed with mathematics, especially if you aren't into it yet.