Proof! How the World Became Geometrical by Amir Alexander

Proof! How the World Became Geometrical

Amir Alexander

320 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. I...

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