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How long does it take to read Love and Math?

The Heart of Hidden Reality

Edward Frenkel

Love and Math by Edward Frenkel takes about 6 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 4 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2013. 331 pages, about 91,025 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 7 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 48 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Love and Math tells the two intertwined stories of mathematics and the adventure of one man in learning it. The result is a story about how he became one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, working on one of the biggest ideas to come out of mathematics in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. As Frenkel proves, a mathematical formula can be as elegant and beautiful as a painting, a poem, or a piece of music. And the process of creating new mathematics is just that, an artistic pursuit--a deeply personal experience, which requires passion, dedication, and love. In Love and Math, Frenkel shows readers the aesthetic--and the truly powerful--side of mathematics, and enables appreciation of the field even from those who have long been terrified by it."--

Subjects: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Biography, Miscellanea, Group Theory, Number Theory

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