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"For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the

Presents the main ideas and current approaches in inquiry-based, content-rich mathematics education.

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be

Virtually every volume on mythology contains legends connected with the rainbow and practically all modern textbooks of physics include some exposition of the o

Where did math come from? Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why? What is the story behind π π? … negative numbers? … the metric system? … qu