The Secret Lives Of Numbers. A Global History Of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
The Secret Lives Of Numbers. A Global History Of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
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Author
Author
Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell / Кейт Китагава, Тимоти Ревелл
Dimension
Dimension
163x240mm (6,4'x9,4')
ISBN
ISBN
9780241544112
Format
Format
Hardcover
Language
Language
English
Page Count
Page Count
320
Publisher
Publisher
Penguin
Year of book publication
Year of book publication
2023
The Secret Lives Of Numbers. A Global History Of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
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.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell - Кейт Китагава, Тимоти Ревелл
Publisher:Penguin
Language:English
Publication Date:2023
Number of pages:320 pst
Format:Hardcover
Width:163 mm / 6,4'
Height:240 mm / 9,4'
Weight:524 g
Illustrations:Black and white
ISBN:9780241544112