SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS (PB)

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In this book, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality. This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is important.