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.
