Mathematics: how it shaped our world

Mathematics is not just the product of lone geniuses dreaming up ideas remote from everyday life: real social, political and cultural problems drive developments in the subject, and the work of mathematical practitioners surrounds us everywhere we look. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies the...

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1. Verfasser: Rooney, David 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Scala [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:Mathematics is not just the product of lone geniuses dreaming up ideas remote from everyday life: real social, political and cultural problems drive developments in the subject, and the work of mathematical practitioners surrounds us everywhere we look. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies the Science Museum's landmark new Mathematics: The David and Claudia Harding Gallery due to open in autumn 2016. It includes an absorbing series of essays by world-leading experts in the history and modern practice of mathematics, alongside vivid accounts of mathematical work underpinning some of our most fundamental human concerns, from life and death to war and peace, money, trade, beauty and our attempts to control nature's most elemental forces. 'Mathematics' uses the world-class collections of the Science Museum to offer a vivid vision of the people behind 400 years of mathematical practice, driven by problems that affect us all
Beschreibung:Published in association with Science Museum. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-198) and index
Beschreibung:207 Seiten zahlreiche Illustrationen 28 cm
ISBN:1785510398
9781785510397
9781785510496
1785510495

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