It All Adds Up - The Story of People and Mathematics

'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.

Info autore

Mickaël Launay graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm in 2009 with a degree in maths. He holds a PhD in probability and curates the Micmaths YouTube channel, which has garnered 18.5 million views and on which he has over 263,000 subscribers. He is the author of two previous books.

Riassunto

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mickael Launay
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen S. Wilson (Traduzione), Wilson Stephen S. (Traduzione)
• Editore: William Collins
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780008283971
• ISBN: 978-0-00-828397-1
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; SCIENCE / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, MATHEMATICS / Arithmetic, History of mathematics