Timothy Revell
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English
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Spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories, as well as just about every mathematical discipline, a renowned math historian and a science journalist/mathematician make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader and richer than the narrative we think we know.
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English
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A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories.
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 and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of...