Monday, December 6, 2010

Do You Know the Love Language?

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.

Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel, whose new film "Rites of Love and Math" centers on a formula and a tattoo. He tells his classes in multivariable calculus that one of his goals is to unlock the subject's inherent beauty for them, the truth revealed by a mathematical formula.