--- product_id: 347318189 title: "Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality" price: "AED 106" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/347318189-love-and-math-the-heart-of-hidden-reality store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Bridges math & culture NYT Bestseller status Explores Langlands Program Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality **Price:** AED 106 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🔍 Unlock the hidden beauty of math and join the intellectual elite! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality - **How much does it cost?** AED 106 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/347318189-love-and-math-the-heart-of-hidden-reality) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Mathematics as Art:** Transforms math from dry theory to a breathtaking creative journey. - • **Accessible Yet Deep:** Engages readers without dumbing down complex concepts—perfect for curious minds. - • **Cultural & Intellectual Unity:** Reveals how math connects humanity across time, space, and disciplines. - • **Personal & Professional Journey:** Experience the inspiring story of overcoming barriers in a male-dominated field. - • **Groundbreaking Langlands Program:** Dive into one of the most revolutionary mathematical ideas of the 21st century. ## Overview Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality is a New York Times Science Bestseller by Edward Frenkel that reveals the elegance and cultural significance of mathematics. It intertwines the author’s personal journey with the revolutionary Langlands Program, inviting readers to see math as a unifying, artistic, and deeply human pursuit. ## Description A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.In Love and Math , renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics. Review: What I REALLY like about this book is that Frenkel talks about real ... - What I REALLY like about this book is that Frenkel talks about real math without talking down to the reader. I don't follow it all, since I did not read it as carefully as it needs to be read, but I will take another pass at it soon. This is in contrast to textbooks, which 1. I wouldn't be able to follow at all since I don't have the background nor will I spend the time to get it, and 2. I would probably never re-read a math textbook. Come on, really? Nope. I read "My Brain is Open" about Paul Erdos a few years ago, and loaned it out, so I can't remember for sure how it compares to this one, but I think I was left a little frustrated. Paul Erdos collaborated in many mathematical ventures, but as I remember, it is assumed the reader couldn't possibly follow what they were. Edward Frenkel makes the attempt. I am flattered and delighted. He is skillful enough in this so that I want to rise to the occasion. In addition, he tells the story of his own life and career in an engaging way. One of the things that I find remarkable in Frenkel's account is the view into a mostly-male field that isn't about soldiering or something similarly physical. As a woman, I did take four years of math in college but didn't continue. It wasn't because I didn't like it - I loved it! It was because of the toxic posturing that accompanies the field, or at least, in my college it seemed to. We students were subtly and not-so-subtly evaluated by our professors and classmates to see if we had "what it takes" to be a great mathematician. One of my professors actually called the other female student in my year to his office and told her that, while she would never be a first-tier mathematician, she had what it took to become a second-tier thinker and she should consider going into math as a career. When she told me about this, she was crying. She did math because she liked to do it, and it had not occurred to her that such rankings were part of the winnowing process. I, of course, was also devastated because clearly I was not even going to be second-tier. Neither of us continued in the field, though, looking back, I think that we should have. Female brains are different than male brains, and we both frequently noted that we found some classes hard and others easy, and that seemed to be in inverse relationship to what our male classmates found. If we had gone on in the "difficult" fields that we thought were easy, who knows where it might have led? With what we know now about the relationship between focused practice and achievement, it seems insane to worry so much about what minds look like in the moment. If my friend had wanted to become a first-tier mathematician, she ought to have been advised to do what Frenkel does, that is, think about math all the time and poke around in the literature and talk to other mathematicians and think about it some more and talk with colleagues some more and do that with passion and verve. I personally work very well in collaboration, but collaboration, while Frenkel talks about it a LOT, was not encouraged in my college. It was too important to evaluate how brilliant people were as they stood alone. The one time I did hang out with a mathematician who was in a class further on than mine, I did so well in the class that we had been talking about, that I went to the professor and confessed that I had an unfair advantage. He said that cheating was frowned upon but he would let it pass this time. I certainly never made the mistake of cheating by talking to another mathematician again! And now, as I read Frenkel, I see how crucial that is. Of course. Review: Livro apaixonante - O livro toca em temas extrenamente complexos, o que pode desmotivar os leitores mais para o final. Contudo parece-me que é isso mesmo que se quer ser transmitido que fazer matemática é complexo e apaixonante, mesmo que não se perceba os promenores essas ideias de mais alto nível é que devem passar ao leitor. ## Features - Basic books AZ ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #61,199 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #16 in Biographies of Educators #33 in Geometry & Topology #36 in Mathematical Physics | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 Reviews | ## Images ![Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91KjJUp4kDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What I REALLY like about this book is that Frenkel talks about real ... *by J***A on 3 October 2014* What I REALLY like about this book is that Frenkel talks about real math without talking down to the reader. I don't follow it all, since I did not read it as carefully as it needs to be read, but I will take another pass at it soon. This is in contrast to textbooks, which 1. I wouldn't be able to follow at all since I don't have the background nor will I spend the time to get it, and 2. I would probably never re-read a math textbook. Come on, really? Nope. I read "My Brain is Open" about Paul Erdos a few years ago, and loaned it out, so I can't remember for sure how it compares to this one, but I think I was left a little frustrated. Paul Erdos collaborated in many mathematical ventures, but as I remember, it is assumed the reader couldn't possibly follow what they were. Edward Frenkel makes the attempt. I am flattered and delighted. He is skillful enough in this so that I want to rise to the occasion. In addition, he tells the story of his own life and career in an engaging way. One of the things that I find remarkable in Frenkel's account is the view into a mostly-male field that isn't about soldiering or something similarly physical. As a woman, I did take four years of math in college but didn't continue. It wasn't because I didn't like it - I loved it! It was because of the toxic posturing that accompanies the field, or at least, in my college it seemed to. We students were subtly and not-so-subtly evaluated by our professors and classmates to see if we had "what it takes" to be a great mathematician. One of my professors actually called the other female student in my year to his office and told her that, while she would never be a first-tier mathematician, she had what it took to become a second-tier thinker and she should consider going into math as a career. When she told me about this, she was crying. She did math because she liked to do it, and it had not occurred to her that such rankings were part of the winnowing process. I, of course, was also devastated because clearly I was not even going to be second-tier. Neither of us continued in the field, though, looking back, I think that we should have. Female brains are different than male brains, and we both frequently noted that we found some classes hard and others easy, and that seemed to be in inverse relationship to what our male classmates found. If we had gone on in the "difficult" fields that we thought were easy, who knows where it might have led? With what we know now about the relationship between focused practice and achievement, it seems insane to worry so much about what minds look like in the moment. If my friend had wanted to become a first-tier mathematician, she ought to have been advised to do what Frenkel does, that is, think about math all the time and poke around in the literature and talk to other mathematicians and think about it some more and talk with colleagues some more and do that with passion and verve. I personally work very well in collaboration, but collaboration, while Frenkel talks about it a LOT, was not encouraged in my college. It was too important to evaluate how brilliant people were as they stood alone. The one time I did hang out with a mathematician who was in a class further on than mine, I did so well in the class that we had been talking about, that I went to the professor and confessed that I had an unfair advantage. He said that cheating was frowned upon but he would let it pass this time. I certainly never made the mistake of cheating by talking to another mathematician again! And now, as I read Frenkel, I see how crucial that is. Of course. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Livro apaixonante *by Á***O on 26 January 2024* O livro toca em temas extrenamente complexos, o que pode desmotivar os leitores mais para o final. Contudo parece-me que é isso mesmo que se quer ser transmitido que fazer matemática é complexo e apaixonante, mesmo que não se perceba os promenores essas ideias de mais alto nível é que devem passar ao leitor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A exciting approach to Modern maths *by J***S on 1 August 2025* This is a great book, it stimulated me to brush up on my maths. It's addictive, but to understand it I had to read every chapter multiple times and I had a few sessions on chatgpt on group theory, modular forms. In the end I am begging to really understand what modern maths is about, the grand unification seems to be a possibility. There are some great YouTube videos by the author that help a lot with some of the difficult ideas. ## Frequently Bought Together - Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality - The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity - Mathematics for Human Flourishing --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/347318189-love-and-math-the-heart-of-hidden-reality](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/347318189-love-and-math-the-heart-of-hidden-reality) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-09-03*