Is Math Real?

How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

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Eugenia Cheng: Is Math Real? (2023, Basic Books)

English language

Published Aug. 20, 2023 by Basic Books.

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978-1-5416-0184-0
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math as curiosity and questioning

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Delightfully retracing basic math concepts to show mathematicians motivations and enthusiasm, emphasizing an openness to not assuming things are "obvious", an educator's deep interest in honest innocent questions that do not have one correct answer, and the relevance of math's interest in contextual "why and when is such true?" in seeing similarities and differences in analogy to current political and cultural rifts.