The words love and math aren't usually uttered in the same breath. But mathematician Edward Frenkel is on a mission to change that, uniting the terms in both his recent film, "The Rites of Love and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As Edward Frenkel sees it, the way we teach math in schools today is about as ...

As a high school math teacher, I appreciate UC Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel’s enthusiasm for the abstractness and applications of math in the real world. I love projects on fractals, snowflake ...

U.C. Berkley mathematician Frenkel reveals the joy of pure intellectual discovery in this autobiographical story of determination, passion, and the Langlands program—a sort of “Grand Unified Field ...

Edward Frenkel is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Love and Math is forthcoming. More information of Professor Frenkel and his work is available on his ...

Edward Frenkel can’t make you love math, but he’s sure going to try. His new book, “Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” (Basic Books, 2013) is the latest example of his efforts to make the ...

Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the ...

Mathematician Edward Frenkel of the University of California–Berkeley wants to expose the beauty of mathematics, inspire awe at its power, and challenge his colleagues to wield it for good. His new ...

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings ...

Scientists have published a study linking gravitational anomalies and computing power that could provide the key to advanced computer simulations in the future. Reuters The idea that the universe is a ...

Edward Frenkel is author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Basic Books, 2013) and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. This website uses cookies ...

Experiment is the ultimate judge of a theory, and that’s why we need expensive and sophisticated machines like CERN's particle accelerator. But the amazing fact is that scientists like Einstein and ...