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Can I read Empire of the Sum on EtoBox?
Empire of the Sum by Keith Houston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Empire of the Sum about?
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life.Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator.In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the...
Who reads Empire of the Sum?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Keith Houston
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Science, Mathematics & Technology