Living by Numbers

In Defence of Quantity

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, now available in paperback, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers. The book opens up for the first time the richness, variety and subtlety of how we do things with numbers and, just as importantly, how they do things with us.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-08-01
Mått129 x 198 x 30 mm
Vikt285 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781780238258

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Full of delights and insights for mathematicians and nonmathematicians alike . . . Living by Numbers turns the question of whether a problem might best be approached qualitatively or quantitatively on its head, suggesting that it misses the point. Instead of asking how the humanities and arts might respond to the expansion of statistics and data sciences, Connor asserts that the important questions about life and the historical, philosophical, and artistic ways of addressing them have always also been about numbers.