The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers / Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell.

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.
Subjects:
Mathematics > History.
Mathematicians > History.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
Mathématiciens > Histoire.
Mathematicians.
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning
  • The turtle and the emperor
  • A town called Alex
  • The dawn of time
  • On the origin(s) of zero
  • The house of wisdom
  • The impossible dream
  • The (first) calculus pioneers
  • Newtonianism for ladies
  • A grand synthesis
  • The mathematical mermaid
  • Revolutions
  • =
  • Mapping the stars
  • Number-crunching.

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