The Secret Lives of Numbers Photographic reportage when Ava Petrakis came along

when Ava Petrakis came along

The first trains puffed great billowing clouds of smoke and showered passengers with burning embers as they sped down the rails at a pulse-pounding twenty miles an hour

"-University Press of North Georgia

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The Secret Lives of Numbers Photographic reportage when Ava Petrakis came alongThis revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important Mathematics 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