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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World - Benjamin Wardhaugh

Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World - Benjamin Wardhaugh

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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ’ IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

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It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics - Mickael Launay, Translated by Stephen S. Wilson

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics - Mickael Launay, Translated by Stephen S. Wilson

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It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet.

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