Kate Kitagawa

Oct 11, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Ed Conway |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Kate Kitagawa |Timothy Revell

To start, could you tell me about the prize and what kind of nonfiction books you’re looking for for the shortlist? It’s called the ‘British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding’ and people often ask me, ‘What does it mean?’ In many ways, it means something quite straightforward, which is books that help us to understand other places, other cultures, and possibly also what we might owe them.

Aug 30, 2023 | newscientist.com | Kate Kitagawa

THE history of mathematics has an image problem. It is often presented as a meeting of minds among ancient Greeks who became masters of logic. Pythagoras, Euclid and their pals honed the tools for proving theorems and that led them to the biggest results of ancient times. Eventually, other European greats like Leonhard Euler and Isaac Newton came along and made maths modern, which is how we got to where we are today. But, of course, this telling is greatly distorted.

Aug 17, 2023 | jellybooks.com | Timothy Revell |Kate Kitagawa

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