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: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
Edition:First US edition.
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