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

by Eugenia Cheng

Book Overview

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a "brilliant" and "mesmerizing" (Popular Science) new way to look at math--focusing on questions, not answers

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New Scientist Best Book of the Year

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541601823
• ISBN13: 9781541601826
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary