Living by Numbers
In Defence of Quantity
Published on 30. July 2021
296 pages
978-1-78023-694-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
5,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78023-694-0 (9781780236940)
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Person
Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research at the Digital Futures Institute, King's College London. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (2019).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1: Vernacular Mathematics
- 2: Quantality
- 3: Horror of Number
- 4: Modern Measures
- 5: Lots
- 6: Hilarious Arithmetic
- 7: Playing the Numbers
- 8: Keeping the Beat
- 9: The Numerate Eye
- 10: Enough
- References
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
