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- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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The protagonists of this book won't be familiar to most readers. Pythagoras, Newton and Descartes seldom feature. Instead, it highlights the remarkable lives and works of a diverse group of pioneers, who fought millennia of oppression to leave a spectacular legacy of mind-melting ideas and theorems. Kitagawa and Revell bring to life the stories of mathematicians from every continent, from the brilliant Arabic scholars of the 9th Century 'House of Wisdom'; to the pioneering African-American mathematicians of the 20th Century; from the first female mathematics professor (from Russia); to the "lady computers" around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky. The authors want passionately to inspire people of every background to believe that mathematics is a subject for them. This ground-breaking book changes how we view our mathematical past, casting fresh light on the possibilities for the future.
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The Secret Lives of Numbers, Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
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- 2023
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- Titul
- The Secret Lives of Numbers
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
- Vydavatel
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Rok vydání
- 2023
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0241544122
- ISBN13
- 9780241544129
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Historické téma, Skutečné příběhy, Životopisy, Věda & Matematika, Věda, Matematika
- Hodnocení
- 3,8 z 5
- Anotace
- The protagonists of this book won't be familiar to most readers. Pythagoras, Newton and Descartes seldom feature. Instead, it highlights the remarkable lives and works of a diverse group of pioneers, who fought millennia of oppression to leave a spectacular legacy of mind-melting ideas and theorems. Kitagawa and Revell bring to life the stories of mathematicians from every continent, from the brilliant Arabic scholars of the 9th Century 'House of Wisdom'; to the pioneering African-American mathematicians of the 20th Century; from the first female mathematics professor (from Russia); to the "lady computers" around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky. The authors want passionately to inspire people of every background to believe that mathematics is a subject for them. This ground-breaking book changes how we view our mathematical past, casting fresh light on the possibilities for the future.