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The Big Bang of Numbers
How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths Manil Suri
An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts – from arithmetic to infinity – that form the building blocks of our universe.
Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing – no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space – could we create a universe using only maths?
In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and award-winning novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design our world, starting with numbers and continuing through geometry, algebra, and beyond. With evocative and engaging examples ranging from multidimensional crochet to the Mona Lisa’s asymmetrical smile, as well as ingenious storytelling that helps illuminate complex concepts like infinity and relativity, The Big Bang of Numbers proves that we can all fall in love with maths.
Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written three novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and The City of Devi, as well as the non-fiction book, The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W H Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He lives in Maryland, USA.
14 September 2023
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Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even childrearing. Tracing the arc of Lawrence’s life, she confronts his anger, his passion, his tumultuous vitality. In the process, she faces some of today’s most urgent dilemmas, from religion to climate, from sexuality to feminism’s ideas about motherhood. And, as she watches the seasons change, Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life shifting in unexpected ways.
Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have Come Through! is a captivating exhumation of an author and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views.
Lara Feigel is a Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, including The Love-charm of Bombs, The Bitter Taste of Victory and Free Woman, as well as one novel, The Group. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian.
Himalaya
Exploring the Roof of the World John Keay
A groundbreaking exploration of Himalaya: one of the world’s most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions
More rugged and elevated than any other zone on the planet, Himalaya embraces all of Tibet, six of the world’s eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. It contains around 50,000 glaciers and the most extensive permafrost outside the polar regions. Over an area nearly as big as Europe, the population is scattered, often nomadic and always sparse. Many languages are spoken, some are written and few are related.
Religious and political affiliations are equally diverse. Borders are disputed, while jealous neighbours shy away from a common strategy for protecting an environment in which desert meets rainforest and temperatures can fluctuate between 30 and -30° C in the course of a single day.
12 October 2023
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18 August 2022
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12 October 2023
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In Himalaya, historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast and confounding corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential and endangered wonders.
John Keay’s involvement with Himalaya dates back to the 1960s when he was a foreign correspondent in Kashmir. In the 1970s he published two standard works on the exploration of the Western Himalayas. He has continued to specialise in Asian affairs, writing books on the histories of India and China. Himalaya is the summation of a lifetime’s study.
12 October 2023
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