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Author : Paulina Rowinska
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2024-06-06
Mapmatics written by Paulina Rowinska and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-06 with Mathematics categories.
'An expansive journey through time and place' - The Observer 'An adventure' - Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of The Phantom Atlas How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths. In Mapmatics, Dr Paulina Rowinska embarks on a fascinating journey to discover the mathematical foundations of cartography and cartographical influences on mathematics. From a sixteenth-century map that remains an indispensable navigation tool despite emphasizing the North–South divide to public transport maps that both guide and mislead passengers, she reveals how maps and maths shape not only our sense of space and time but also our worldview. Through entertaining stories, surprising real-world examples and a cast of unforgettable characters, Mapmatics helps us to appreciate the mathematical methods and ideas behind maps. And, by illuminating how our world works, leaves us better equipped to understand and look after it.
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Author : PAULINA. ROWINSKA
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-17
Mapmatics written by PAULINA. ROWINSKA and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-17 with Computers categories.
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska leads us across the globe to discover the myriad connections between math and maps, and how they've shaped not just our sense of space but our worldview.
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Author : Paulina Rowińska
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024-09-17
Mapmatics written by Paulina Rowińska and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-17 with Mathematics categories.
Explore the surprising connections between math and maps—and the myriad ways they’ve shaped our world and us. Why are coastlines and borders so difficult to measure? How does a UPS driver deliver hundreds of packages in a single day? And where do elusive serial killers hide? The answers lie in the crucial connection between math and maps. In Mapmatics, mathematician Paulina Rowińska leads us on a journey around the globe to discover how math and maps are deeply entwined, and always have been. From a sixteenth-century map, an indispensable navigation tool that exaggerates the size of northern countries, to public transport maps that both guide and confound passengers, to congressional maps that can empower or silence whole communities, maps and math have shaped not only our sense of space but our worldview. Rowińska shows that by understanding the math behind maps, we can recognize their biases. And we can appreciate the ingenious tools mathematicians develop to resolve them. Written with authority and compassion, wit and unforgettable storytelling, Mapmatics is math exposition at its best. By unpacking the math underlying the maps we depend on, this book illuminates how our world works, and, ultimately, how we can better look after it.
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Author : Mark A. Van Hecke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-01
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Author : Paulina Rowińska
language : de
Publisher: Aufbau Digital
Release Date : 2024-08-13
Mapmatics written by Paulina Rowińska and has been published by Aufbau Digital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Ein Buch, das unser Weltbild ins Wanken bringt. Ob bei Google Maps oder Apple: Täglich verlassen wir uns auf Karten. Aber wir denken selten darüber nach, wie umfangreich sie Einfluss auf unser Leben nehmen. Zum Beispiel durch die Mercator-Projektion aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, die bis heute die Dominanz des Westens unterstreicht, indem sie die Länder des Nordens größer erscheinen lässt. Oder durch Gerrymandering, die Grenzziehung von Bezirken, die den Ausgang von Wahlen beeinflusst. Die preisgekrönte Mathematikerin Paulina Rowińska weiht uns ein in die Geheimisse der Kartenerstellung: Sie zeigt, wie Karten Pandemien bekämpfen und dabei helfen, Serienkiller dingfest zu machen, dass Karten immer politisch sind – und dass wir, wenn wir die Mathematik hinter Karten verstehen, die Welt mit anderen, neuen Augen sehen können.
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Author : Paulina Rowinska
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
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Source Book In Geology 1900 1950
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Author : Kirtley Fletcher Mather
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1967
Source Book In Geology 1900 1950 written by Kirtley Fletcher Mather and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Science categories.
Here, find source literature for the most important contributions to the remarkable recent expansion of geological knowledge. Excerpted are 65 articles on topics including the constitution of Earth's interior, earthquakes, radioactive timekeepers, submarine features and deep-sea cores, entrapment of petroleum, and crystal structure.
A Source Book In Geography
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Author : George Kish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
A Source Book In Geography written by George Kish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Geography categories.
A Source Book In Chemistry 1400 1900
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Author : Henry Marshall Leicester
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1952
A Source Book In Chemistry 1400 1900 written by Henry Marshall Leicester and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Science categories.
A collection of important writings in the history of chemistry from 1400-1900, each with an introduction by the editors.
Dear Science And Other Stories
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Author : Katherine McKittrick
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-14
Dear Science And Other Stories written by Katherine McKittrick and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-14 with Social Science categories.
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.
