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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New York :
Penguin Press,
2021.
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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.