Tag: Frenkel-March-2

Greene on Mathematics

A reply in the March 8 LA Times  to the opinion piece by Edward Frenkel discussed here yesterday— "It is completely wrong to imply that Euclidean geometry is somehow…

Whitewashing Picasso

A search today for Edward Frenkel's phrase "portals into the magic world of modern math" leads to a reprint of his March 2 LA Times  opinion piece in…

Quotation

Edward Frenkel in a vulgar and stupid LA Times  opinion piece, March 2, 2014 — "In the words of the great mathematician Henri Poincare, mathematics is valuable because 'in…