EAN: 9780141991511

SHAPE - JORDAN ELLENBERG KARTONIERT (TB)

The international bestseller - a whip-smart  entertaining exploration of the geometry that
underlies our world  from the author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its
representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to
play chess? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry  no.) What should
your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? The answers to all these
questions can be found in geometry. If you're like most people  geometry is a dimly-remembered
exercise  handed down from the ancients  that you gladly left behind in school. It seemed to be
a tortuous way of proving some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place.
That's not geometry. OK  it is geometry  but only a tiny part  that has as much to do with the
modern  fast-moving discipline as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel. In Shape 
Sunday Times-bestselling author Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry underneath some of the
most important scientific  political  and philosophical problems we face  from the spread of
coronavirus to rise of machine learning. The word 'geometry ' from the Greek  means 'measuring
the world.' But geometry doesn't just measure the world - it explains it. Shape shows us how.

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