The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Shortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories.

"A book to make you love math." -Financial Times

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 Afr...