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Brooks, Michael, 1970-
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Mathematics and civilization.
Mathematics -- History.
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Brooks, Michael, 1970-
Mathematics and civilization.
Mathematics -- History.
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The art of more :
how
mathematics
created
civilization
/ Michael Brooks.
by
Brooks, Michael, 1970-
Pantheon Books, 2021.
Call #:
510.9 B873a
Subjects
Mathematics
and
civilization
.
Mathematics
-- History.
ISBN:
9781524748999 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
mathematics
created
civilization
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
vii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in London, Great Britain by Scribe, in 2021."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Why our skill with numbers is the greatest human achievement of all -- Numbers :
how
we founded civilisation -- Geometry :
how
we conquered and
created
-- Algebra :
how
we got organised -- Calculus :
how
we engineered everything -- Logarithms :
how
we launched science -- Imaginary numbers :
how
we fired up the electric age -- Statistics :
how
we made everything better -- Information theory :
how
we
created
the modern era -- Conclusion: Maths is a many-splendoured thing.
Summary:
"For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that
mathematics
was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to
civilization
, and that it has been instrumental in every subsequent great leap of humankind--from charting the movements of celestial bodies, to navigating the globe, to tracking the dissemination of viruses. And the trailblazing mathematicians who devoted their lives to taming numbers come to life in Brooks's telling. Here are ancient Egyptian priests, Babylonian tax officials, the Apollo astronauts, the hobbyist who cracked a mapmaking puzzle that had stumped both NASA and U.S. Geological Survey, and the MIT professor who invented the infrastructure of the online world. Their stories clearly demonstrate that the invention of
mathematics
is every bit as important to the human species as the discovery of fire. First page to last, The Art of More brings
mathematics
back into the heart of what it means to be human"--From publisher.
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