Mathematics How it Shaped Our World Author:David Rooney Accompanies the London Science Museum's new Mathematics: The David and Claudia Harding Gallery due to open in Fall 2016 — Mathematics: How it Shaped Our World 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 mathema... more »tical practitioners surrounds us everywhere we look.
This lavishly illustrated book accompanies the London Science Museum's landmark new Mathematics: The David and Claudia Harding Gallery due to open in Fall 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: How it Shaped Our World 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.« less