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Title: Empire of the Sum
Author: Keith Houston
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
Release date: 10-31-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings
Genres: Mathematics
Publisher's Summary:
Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. Keith Houston transports listeners from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators.
