The Secret Lives of Numbers: (Record no. 14127)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | BDCtgAUW |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250429153917.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780063206052 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | BDCtgAUW |
| Transcribing agency | BDCtgAUW |
| Modifying agency | BDCtgAUW |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA21.K58 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kate Kitagawa |
| 9 (RLIN) | 76522 |
| Relator term | Author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Secret Lives of Numbers: |
| Remainder of title | A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | UK: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Vikings, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 310 pages |
| Other physical details | : illustrations, charts, maps ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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—warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, renowned math historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader, and richer than the narrative we think we know.<br/><br/>Our story takes us from Hypatia, the first great female mathematician, whose ideas revolutionized geometry and who was killed for them—to Karen Uhlenbeck, the first woman to win the Abel Prize, “math’s Nobel.” Along the way we travel the globe to meet the brilliant Arabic scholars of the “House of Wisdom,” a math temple whose destruction in the Siege of Baghdad in the thirteenth century was a loss arguably on par with that of the Library of Alexandria; Madhava of Sangamagrama, the fourteenth-century Indian genius who uncovered the central tenets of calculus 300 years before Isaac Newton was born; and the Black mathematicians of the Civil Rights era, who played a significant role in dismantling early data-based methods of racial discrimination.<br/><br/>Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Timothy Revell |
| Relator term | Author |
| 9 (RLIN) | 76889 |
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| Source of data | 2287 |
| Content of non-MARC field | Papia Akter |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Non-fiction | Asian University for Women Library | Asian University for Women Library | General Stacks | 20/03/2025 | Kamal Ahmed (AUWSF) | QA21.K58 | 031480 | 08/04/2025 | 08/04/2025 | Books |