The Secret Lives of Numbers
A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
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Product details:
- Publisher Viking
- Date of Publication 17 August 2023
- Number of Volumes Trade paperback (UK)
- ISBN 9780241544129
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x153x23 mm
- Weight 388 g
- Language English 0
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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday Times
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American mathematicians of the twentieth century, to the 'lady computers' around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky, we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed to our global knowledge today.
Along the way, the mathematics itself is explained extremely clearly, for example, calculus is described using the authors' home baking, as they pose the question: how much cake is in our cake? This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important.
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
8 116 HUF
6 899 HUF
