Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg.
"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 j...
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| Other title: | Hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else. |
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| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else. |
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| 300 | |a 463 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a The power of geometry can help us think better about practically everything in our daily lives: the geometry we learn in school is only a tiny part of the subject. Ellenberg reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face.He shows that geometry doesn't just measure the world-- it explains it. -- adapted from jacket. | ||
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