Growing up in Russia, mathematician Edward Frenkel was denied entrance to university to study mathematics because he was Jewish. Yet with the help of his mentors he circumvented the 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 mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program, considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics. Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of amazing mathematics and the adventure of one young man in learning it. At its core it is a story about gaining entry to the previously inaccessible—the invisible universe of mathematics. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel reveals a side of mathematics we’ve never seen, suffused with all the beauty and wonder of a work of art.