Last April the distinguished biologist Edward O. Wilson published an essay in the Wall Street Journal arguing that knowledge of mathematics is not necessary or even particularly helpful in most of the sciences. The champion from the ranks of mathematicians to contest this claim was not an elder statesman like Wilson but a Russian American mathematician in his 40s: Edward Frenkel of the University of California, Berkeley. Frenkel countered that math is indeed a useful tool, and more. "It's about concepts and ideas that empower us to describe reality and figure out how , the world really works," he wrote.He expands on this theme in Love and Math, a book that blends personal memoir with a tutorial introduction to some important ideas on the frontiers of modern mathematics.
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机译：去年四月，杰出的生物学家爱德华·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson）在《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）上发表了一篇文章，认为在大多数科学中，数学知识不是必需的，甚至不是特别有用。来自数学家队伍的冠军不是像威尔逊那样的资深政治家，而是40多岁的俄裔美国数学家：加州大学伯克利分校的爱德华·弗伦克尔。弗伦克尔反驳说数学确实是一个有用的工具，甚至更多。他写道：“这是使我们能够描述现实并弄清世界是如何运转的概念和思想。”他在《爱与数学》一书中扩展了这一主题，该书将个人回忆录与一些重要思想的教程介绍融为一体在现代数学的前沿。
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