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It all adds up : the story of people and mathematics

Launay, Mickael2018

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Through the fascinating and outrageous stories behind mathematics' greats, 'It All Adds Up' provides an accessible refresher on the ideas you learned in school but forgot (or never really understood). From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control our computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget just how brilliant they are and that it took our ancestors thousands of years to provide us with these systems. Wandering around museums, monuments and metro stations, mathematician Mickael Launay looks at everyday objects and art to tell the exciting story of how our prehistoric dabbles became the most sophisticated framework that exists today.