The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers /

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--warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, ren...

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Main Authors: Kitagawa, Kate (Author), Revell, Timothy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Edition:First US edition.
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Call Number: 510.9 .K58 2023
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