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Shape : The hidden geometry of absolutely everything / Jordan Ellenberg

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: India Allen Lane 2021Description: 463pISBN:
  • 9780241510452
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 516 ELL-J
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How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriously!

Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most important scientific, political and philosophical problems we face. The word 'geometry', from Greek, means 'measuring the world'. If anything, geometry doesn't just measure the world. It explains it. The shape shows us how.

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