The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Kate Kitagawa with Timothy Revell (Contributor)

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 a...

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