A compelling and readable book that situates mathematics in human experience and history.

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century develo

“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden

In contributing a foreword to this book I am complying with a wish my husband expressed a few days before his death. He had completed the manuscript of this wor

"Mathematical thinking is not the same as 'doing math'--unless you are a professional mathematician. For most people, 'doing math' means the application of proc