Bibliograph

Shape, the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else, Jordan Ellenberg

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Shape, the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else, Jordan Ellenberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-444) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shape

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1250647625

Responsibility statement

Jordan Ellenberg

Sub title

the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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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