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

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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 ... Read more
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 --... Read more
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x, 310 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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