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Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths cover

Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths

Eugenia Cheng

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#964 of 3,809 books · #75 in Science & Technology

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2023).

Is Math Real? won the LA Times Science & Technology 2023 Book Prize and was a Waterstones and New Scientist Best Book of 2023. To many, maths feels like an unmapped wilderness. Between abstract concepts like imaginary numbers and infinity, it can sometimes feel like a lot of maths is just made up. Why, for example, is 1 not a prime? Why do two negatives cancel each other out? Where does trigonometry come from? Is maths even real? Abstract mathematician Eugenia Cheng shows that curiosity is the best teacher. Is Maths Real? takes us on a scintillating tour of the simple questions that provoke mathematics' deepest insights.

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ISBN-13
9781782839248
Topics
MathematicsPhilosophy of mathMathematical thinking

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