Michael Barany

Let’s leave philosophers to puzzle over the reality of numbers

Numbers may be abstract concepts, but the figures in our bank accounts and the digits on our clocks are real enough for most of us

issue 07 March 2020
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  • The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History

    Paolo Zellini, translated from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

    Allen Lane, pp. 240, £18

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