Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World

David Rooney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2016
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78551-039-7 (ISBN)

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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	12.05.2017
Zusatzinfo	200 colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 280 mm
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