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Shape
Jordan Ellenberg
The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
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◷ 24 Minutes
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Shape (2021) is a love letter to geometry, addressed to those who have – or thought they had – sworn off math forever. Accessible and fascinating, it shows how geometry underpins not just objects in the physical world, but also things like games, pandemics, artificial intelligence, and even American democracy. When we understand geometry, we understand a bit more about almost everything.
About the author
Jordan Ellenberg was a child prodigy and is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an author and blogger responsible for writing the “Do the Math” column for Slate; his own blog, Quomodocumque; and the best-selling book How Not to Be Wrong.
Who might enjoy this content?
- Math haters convinced that geometry is boring
- Math lovers interested in how geometry intersects with other subjects
- The perennially curious
