Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World by David Rooney

Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World by David Rooney

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 Winton Gallery, due to open in December 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.

David Rooney is a curator in the Technologies and Engineering Group at the Science Museum and lead curator of Mathematics: The David and Claudia Harding Gallery.

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ISBN 13	9781785510397
ISBN 10	1785510398
Titel	Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World
Autor	David Rooney
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-12-19
Seitenanzahl	208
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