Math is a way to describe reality and figure out how the world works, a universal language that has become the gold standard of truth. “What really excited me was physics-especially quantum physics.”Ī reader sent me a pointer to Frenkel’s book after reading 17 equations that changed the world. Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.įrenkel, who became a professor at Harvard at twenty-one, now teaches at Berkeley. “Mathematics,” he goes on, “is as much part of our cultural heritage as art, literature, and music.”
Math, however, can be “full of infinite possibilities as well as elegance and beauty,” writes mathematician Edward Frenkel in Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. It’s difficult and inaccessible.Ī lot of that has to do with the way we’re introduced to mathematics as taught in school and university. Actually, we’d rather avoid the subject entirely. Most of us are unaware of the hidden world of mathematics. “The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics.”
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