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Michael Brooks: The Maths That Made Us: how numbers created civilisation [2022] paperback Condition:New New York Times bestselling authorQuadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help. In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of numbers: how they enabled explorers to travel far across the seas and astronomers to map the heavens; how they won wars and halted the HIV