x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng

x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

Eugenia Cheng

272 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction gender mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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"Eugenia Cheng can't help thinking like a mathematician. She also can't help thinking like a woman. After all, she's both. But there seems like there must be a clear tension. She had to learn to be a mathematician, for one thing, and-in the popula...

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