by Denis Guedj · Ediciones Paidós · tapa dura · ISBN 9788449322235
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In this book, Denis Guedj addresses the question of why so many people feel lost with mathematics. It explores how mathematics is a language that expresses ideas and formulates questions. Guedj examines what a reasoning, a demonstration, and a theorem are, and the differences between equality, identity, and equation, as well as between algebra and arithmetic. The author also explores the history of mathematics and whether there are still results to be discovered. This book encourages readers to value and understand mathematics, even if they do not like it.
Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem. He died in Paris.
