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Ellenberg, Jordan, 1971- author.
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Geometry.
Shapes.
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Shape : the hidden g...
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Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg.
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Ellenberg, Jordan, 1971- author.
New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Subjects
Geometry.
Shapes.
ISBN:
9781984879059 (hardcover) :
1984879057 (hardcover) :
Description:
463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Where things are and what they look like -- "I vote for Euclid" -- How many holes does a straw have? -- Giving the same name to different things -- A fragment of the sphinx -- "His style was invincibility" -- The mysterious power of trial and error -- Artificial Intelligence as mountaineering -- You are your own negative-first cousin, and other maps -- Three years of Sundays -- What happened today will happen tomorrow -- The terrible law of increase -- The smoke in the leaf -- A rumple in space -- How math broke democracy (and might still save it) -- I prove a theorem and the house expands.
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"Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. Geometry doesn't just measure the world-it explains it. Shape shows us how"--
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