The Secret Lives of Numbers
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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive
history of mathsMathematics 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.Along the way, the mathematics itself is explained
extremely clearly, for example, calculus is described using the
authors' home baking, as they pose the question: how much cake is
in our cake? This revisionist, completely accessible and radically
inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is
important.
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