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The Secret Lives of Numbers

A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

  • Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell . 2024 . 510.9 KITAGAWA . Hillsboro Library


  • p001 Prelude


  • p007 Chapter 1 - In the Beginning


  • p020 Chapter 2 - The Turtle and the Emperor

  • p031 I Ching inspired Leibniz binary math
  • p039 humblebrag


  • p042 Chapter 3 - A Town Called Alex

  • p046 Pandrosion 4th century female mathematician in Alexandria

  • p047 Doubling the cube impossible with straightedge and compass

  • p047 Difference between theorem and proof, earliest recorded case of mansplaining

  • p048 Hipparchia

  • p049 Theon to daughter Hipparchia: "Reserve your right to think. For even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.


  • p057 Chapter 4 - The Dawn of Time

  • p060 Mayan Long Count Calendar ended 2012 December 21, some believed this predicted the end of the world. The Maya actually believed this was one of many rebirth cycles, nothing changed because of the measurement itse3lf

  • p060 Yazılıkaya


  • p072 Chapter 5 - On the Origin(s) of Zero


  • p089 Chapter 6 - The House of Wisdom


  • p103 Chapter 7 - The Impossible Dream

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  • p118 Chapter 8 - The (First) Calculus Pioneers

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  • p139 Chapter 9 - Newtonianism for Ladies

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  • p157 Chapter 10 - A Grand Synthesis

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  • p171 Chapter 11 - The Mathematical Mermaid

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  • p190 Chapter 12 - Revolutions


  • p208 Chapter 13 - ∞

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  • p221 Chapter 14 - Mapping the Stars


  • p234 Chapter 15 - Number Crunching

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  • p253 Epilogue

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  • p263 Acknowledgements

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  • p265 Notes

  • p271


  • p273 Further Readings


  • p285 Index

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