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

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

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

“Brilliant.”—Popular Science

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...