TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN . . .

Discover the definitive guide to our fear of uncertainty, and how we can stop it from holding us back

'Groundbreaking' MARTIN SELIGMAN

'One of my very favorite psychologists in the world' ANGELA DUCKWORTH

'This is the book we've been waiting for' CAROL DWECK, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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Do you fear uncertainty?

Why is the unknown so paralysing?

And how can we use doubt to our advantage?

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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.

From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...