Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World - David Rooney

Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2016
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78551-039-7 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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Includes essays by Patricia Fara, June Barrow-Green, Jim Bennett, Dame Celia Hoyles and Helen Wilson, and features the world-class collections of the Science Museum.
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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 200 COLOUR ILLUS
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 240 x 279 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10 1-78551-039-8 / 1785510398
ISBN-13 978-1-78551-039-7 / 9781785510397
Zustand Neuware
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