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Simple mathematics now powers our digital world, but what happens when it outgrows us?
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Big Math

The Hidden Codes That Run Our World

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    304 pages

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    2 March 2027

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Summary

It’s in every photo you post to Instagram, every Google search you make and every prompt you give to ChatGPT …

Big Math - the branch of modern mathematics behind our digital revolution - operates under the hood of these everyday miracles, driving the biggest shifts in how we shop, communicate, live, and think.

Yet the arithmetic itself is not especially new or mysterious: rather, it is made up of humble concepts and processes such as matrices and vectors, netw…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399819985
ISBN-10:1399819984
Author:Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:2 March 2027
Dimensions:156mm x 240mm
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About The Author

Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz is the Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University. He is the author of SYNC, THE JOY OF X, and the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller INFINITE POWERS. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, a frequent columnist in the NEW YORK TIMES and the NEW YORKER, a regular guest on Radiolab and Science Friday, and the winner of MIT’s and Cornell’s highest teaching prizes.

Alex Townsend is one of the world’s top young researchers in numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, and scientific artificial intelligence. A 2022 Simons Fellow, he has been honoured with many international prizes in numerical analysis and linear algebra, including the Leslie Fox Prize (2015), the SIGEST award for best paper in Linear Algebra (2019), the SIAM Linear Algebra Early Career Prize (2018), and SIAM’s best paper prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2023).

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