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. This revisionist completely accessible and
radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important.
