Guest appearance on The Mathematicians Podcast
For a special edition of The Mathematicians Podcast, host Ben Cornish invited me to join him in conversation about my similarly-titled book, The Mathematicians’ Library.
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The Mathematicians’ Library shortlisted for Book of the Year
“… if you get the chance to flick through a copy in a library or bookshop you will find your attention constantly being captured by a piece of mathematical history or a page from a book that you have heard of but never seen before”
– Chalkdust Editors
Tags: book, history, mathematics, MathsComm, writing
The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers
Far from an academic “maths book”, it is a book about maths; about the role that this most ancient of human endeavours has played in the development of humanity, and where its achievements have prompted – and been prompted by – growth in disciplines that many people in the modern world see as entirely separate.
Tags: books, history, mathematics, MathsComm, publications, research, writing
