Paulina Rowinska

Mapmatics

How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781035007042
• ISBN-10: 1035007045
• Artikelnr.: 70725788

Autorenporträt

Dr Paulina Rowinska has a PhD in Mathematics of Planet Earth from Imperial College London. Her 2017 TEDx talk 'Let's Have a Maths Party!' explained that maths is all around us. Thanks to her science communication activities, in 2019 she received the Imperial College President's Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement. Today, she creates interactive content for a leading innovative educational company, Brilliant. Mapmatics is her first book.

Rezensionen

A wonderfully readable adventure through the mathematic poetry of mapping. Dr Rowinska has created something really special, a book that celebrates the science and ideas behind the cartographic art with tales of everything fascinating, from criminal geography to ancient earthquake detectors. An essential guide that illuminates how much of our understanding of the world, the past, and indeed the people around us, is shaped by the mathematician and the mapmaker. Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of The Phantom Atlas