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Mapmatics review: Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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Mapmatics review: Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

It is impossible to find a coastline’s exact length, as it grows with the rising precision of measurements

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Paulina Rowińska (Picador (***); Belknap Press (US, out 17 September))

Mathematics helps us understand the world, and in Paulina Rowińska’s Mapmatics: How we navigate the world through numbers, the focus is on its indispensability in the making of visual representations of that world – maps.

As a mathematician, I already knew some of the theory, but it was a pleasant surprise to find this book full of fascinating examples and facts that I didn’t know, including…





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