Book · 2013 · Mathematics
Love and Math
Love and Math by Edward Frenkel has been mentioned in 4 episodes across 1 podcast (1 episode recommends it and 3 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Lex Fridman (3 episodes) and Peter Woit (1 episode) on Lex Fridman Podcast (4 episodes).
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He has written this amazing book I recommend to everybody called Love and Math.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2018 Listen at 1:35 The best things said about it
And there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great.
Why people recommend it
Love and Math by Edward Frenkel is an acclaimed exploration of mathematics that connects abstract concepts to human emotion and beauty while detailing the author's personal journey into the field. Lex Fridman enthusiastically recommended the book on the Lex Fridman Podcast, praising it as an amazing work and sharing the author's insightful analogy that if painting were taught the way math is taught, students would merely be asked to paint a fence. Fridman also referenced the text during an interview with Edward Frenkel himself, quoting the book's opening question about how one becomes a mathematician to prompt a discussion on the guest's background. Peter Woit brought up the book on the same podcast to help illustrate unifying ideas within number theory. Furthermore, Lex Fridman mentioned Edward Frenkel and his book while speaking with Eric Weinstein, highlighting the author's academic position at Berkeley and praising the captivating title. Throughout multiple episodes, the podcast guests and host consistently returned to this book to celebrate how it demystifies complex mathematical concepts, champions the deep interconnectedness of numbers and reality, and offers listeners a profound new perspective on a subject that many people find intimidating or inaccessible during their traditional schooling years.
Every mention
Lex Fridman He has written this amazing book I recommend to everybody called Love and Math. 3
“You open your book "Love and Math" with a question. "How does one become a mathematician? There are many ways that this can happen. Let me tell you how it happened to me."”
“One of my favorite people, Edward Franco, Berkeley professor, author of Love and Math, great title for a book, said that you were quite a remarkable intellect to come up with such beautiful, original ideas in terms of unified theory and so on.”
“He has written this amazing book I recommend to everybody called Love and Math. Two of my favorite words. (laughs) He says that if painting was taught like math, then students would be asked to paint a fence. It's just his analogy of essentially how math is taught.”
“He has written this amazing book I recommend to everybody called Love and Math.”
Peter Woit and there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great 1
“and there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great”
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“He also is the author of "Love and Math, the Heart of Hidden Reality."”
“- So the book is called "Love and Math." Okay?”
“When I wrote "Love and Math", when I wrote my book,”
“So where all this fruit grows, you know, and then we might make sure. It gives you this sort of romantic sense of an explorer. And someone may be stuck in a, you know, some provincial town in Russia, for instance, but have the sense of Magellan, you know, of traveling around the world. It's just not in the world”
“I describe in my book how it happened.”
“I describe it in "Love and Math" in my book.”
“And one of the reasons why I wrote "Love and Math"”
“In my book, one of the first chapters is a chapter about this experience.”