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Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
The Secret Lives of Numbers

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But des…

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Stephen Abbott
The Proof Stage

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stage The discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infin…

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David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1894-1917

This volume focuses on notes for lectures on the foundations of the mathematical sciences held by Hilbert in the period 1894-1917. They document Hilbert s first engagement with impossibility proofs; his…

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Barry Loewer
Laws of Nature and Chances

Barry Loewer presents a novel account of the metaphysics of laws of nature, chances, fundamental ontology, and the space-time arena they occupy. He discusses the history of the concept of laws of nature, …

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Benjamin Wardhaugh
Counting

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

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Michael Kempe,
The Best of All Possible Worlds

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independent…

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Siobhan Roberts
The Man Who Saved Geometry

An illuminating biography of one of the greatest geometers of the twentieth century Driven by a profound love of shapes and symmetries, Donald Coxeter (1907–2003) preserved the tradition of classical geo…

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Chris Edwards
The New Order

What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? If human scholars are to understand how AI interprets the universe, we will need to understand the scientific narrative in a "new order.…

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Adam Kucharski
Proof

An award-winning mathematician—he "made me smile and made me feel clever" (Peter Frankopan)—shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t How do we establish what we believe? And how can…

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Siobhan Roberts
Genius at Play

A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937–2020) possessed a rock star’s charisma, a polymath’s promiscuous curiosity,…

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Keith Houston
Empire of the Sum

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bott…

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Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
The Secret Lives of Numbers

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. We think we know the story of math: A bear…

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Grigor Sargsyan, Nam Trang
The Largest Suslin Axiom

"The book develops the technical machinery to study the minimal model of the Largest Suslin Axiom, and it is a contribution to the Gèodel's Program, a central program in the philosophy of mathematics. It …

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Francesca Boccuni, Luca Zanetti
Abstractionism

The aim of this Element is to provide an overview of abstractionism in the philosophy of mathematics. It distinguishes between mathematical abstractionism and philosophical abstractionism. It also discuss…