Book description
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday Times
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…
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This book provides an interesting take on the history of mathematics from a truly global perspective, a viewpoint often ignored in traditional history books on this subject.
I found it fascinating as it showed how crucial the development of numbers was to a myriad of different societies, as well as how mathematical concepts emerged independently at different times in different cultures over the last six thousand years.
An eye-opening book.
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