by Iolanda Guevara, Carles Puig · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447374427
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«Las medidas del mundo» is the popular mathematics essay by Iolanda Guevara and Carles Puig, published by RBA in hardcover (159 pages, in Spanish).
The book explains how measurement allows exact answers to variables that would otherwise be difficult to classify, and how the unification of measures created a common language for talking about elapsed time, distance, height, or weight. According to the authors, that consensus on reality would not have been possible without mathematics.
It belongs to the collection «El mundo es matemático», with illustrations, charts, and maps; includes bibliography on page 155.
It will interest readers fond of popular science and the history of measures and mathematics.
