x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender - Softcover

Cheng, Eugenia

 
9781788160414: x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178816041X ISBN 13: 9781788160414
Verlag: Profile Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place.

Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, Cheng's analysis replaces confusion with clarity, brings original thinking to well worn arguments - and provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eugenia Cheng is a Pure Mathematician, Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Pure Mathematics at City, University of London. A Cambridge graduate, she previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. She is also a concert pianist, fluent in French, and the author of several bestsellers, including How to Bake Pi and x + y.

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Verlag
Profile Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178816041X
ISBN 13 
9781788160414
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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