x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- ISBN13 9781788160414
- ISBN10 178816041X
- Type Book
- Pages 272
- Published 2021
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place. Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, Cheng's analysis replaces confusion with clarity, brings original thinking to well worn arguments - and provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.