EAN: 9780241544129

THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS - KATE KITAGAWA TIM...

A revisionist  completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively 
satisfying  good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics 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. In The Secret Lives of Numbers  historian Kate Kitagawa and
journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been
erased by history because of their race  gender or nationality.From the brilliant Arabic
scholars of the ninth-century House of Wisdom  and the pioneering African American
mathematicians of the twentieth century  to the 'lady computers' around the world who
revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky  we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see
how they contributed to our global knowledge today.Along the way  the mathematics itself is
explained extremely clearly  for example  calculus is described using the authors' home baking
as they pose the question: how much cake is in our cake? This revisionist  completely
accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is
important.

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