I got this for a Christmas present – retired math teacher and all – and it turned out to be quite enlightening. These types of books tend to run more along the “Hey did you know that a lot of important math discoveries were made by – wait for it – women and non-European white males? That includes the lady with the best nickname ever, the Witch of Agnesi, based on a botched translation. My theory is that these ladies came up with these amazing […]
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
