Benjamin Wardhaugh

Gebundenes Buch

Counting

Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

Beschreibung

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Autor

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fifty-pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the history of numeracy and mathematics, and the ways mathematics influences and is a part of cultures. His work focuses mainly on topics in early modern Britain, including mathematical music theory in that period. He has taught in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry and Encounters with Euclid.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780008436469
• ISBN-10: 0008436460
• Artikelnr.: 67640011

Rezensionen

Praise for The Book of Wonders:

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time, from ancient Greece to dark energy. The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended!'

Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures

'Benjamin Wardhaugh is an excellent storyteller and his collected short story approach to the history of The Elements works splendidly... simultaneously educational, entertaining and illuminating ... A highly desirable read for all those, both professional and amateur, who interest themselves in the histories of mathematics, science and knowledge ... over almost two and a half millennia'

Thony Christie, The Renaissance Mathematicus

Praise for Gunpowder and Geometry:

'Meticulous yet lively biography, even those who have never heard of its subject could hardly disagree'

Sunday Times

'As this book argues persuasively, he changed a whole culture: by simple dint of his genial celebrity as well as a europhile passion for developments in France and elsewhere, he helped to elevate mathematics to a rank equal with the other sciences. It is impossible not to warm to such a man in Wardhaugh's wryly sympathetic telling ... Spirited and elegantly erudite'

Daily Telegraph

Praise for The Book of Wonders:

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time, from ancient Greece to dark energy. The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended!'

Ian Stewart, author of Significant Figures

'Benjamin Wardhaugh is an excellent storyteller and his collected short story approach to the history of The Elements works splendidly... simultaneously educational, entertaining and illuminating ... A highly desirable read for all those, both professional and amateur, who interest themselves in the histories of mathematics, science and knowledge ... over almost two and a half

millennia'

Thony Christie, The Renaissance Mathematicus

Praise for Gunpowder and Geometry:

'Meticulous yet lively biography, even those who have never heard of its subject could hardly disagree'

Sunday Times

'As this book argues persuasively, he changed a whole culture: by simple dint of his genial celebrity as well as a europhile passion for developments in France and elsewhere, he helped to elevate mathematics to a rank equal with the other sciences. It is impossible not to warm to such a man in Wardhaugh's wryly sympathetic telling ... Spirited and elegantly erudite'

Daily Telegraph