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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Cheng, Eugenia

Hardcover

General MathematicsHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1541601823
ISBN13: 9781541601826
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A New Scientist Best Book of 2023

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math--focusing on questions, not answers

Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity--most importantly, from asking questions. This may come as a surprise to those who think that math is about finding the one right answer, or those who were told that the dumb question they asked just proved they were bad at math. But Cheng shows why people who ask questions like Why does 1 + 1 = 2? are at the very heart of the search for mathematical truth.

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