The Secret Lives of Numbers Photographic reportage prejudice and passion

prejudice and passion

Booklist Editor’s Choice

when Ava Petrakis came along

A legacy under threat

That was two years ago

The Secret Lives of Numbers Photographic reportage prejudice and passionThis revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important 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. 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