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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beauty and truth aren't the first things that come to mind, for most people, when they think about math. Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel is trying to change that. He tells his classes in ...

Growing up in the Soviet Union, Edward Frenkel thought that a career as a mathematician would provide a refuge from his country's repressive political climate. Instead, it left him out in the cold.

Do you have an aversion towards math? UC Berkeley Professor Edward Frenkel is here to change that. His new book “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality” came out on October 1st and gives readers a ...

In Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park, he describes "a new generation of mathematicians" who "dressed and spoke with what one senior mathematician called 'a deplorable excess of personality.' In ...

UC Berkeley mathematics professor Edward Frenkel was recently on "The Colbert Report" in order to promote his new book, "Love and Math." On April 7, Stephen Colbert interviewed Frenkel, who hoped to ...

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 ...