How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers
teach themselves chess and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should
your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions
about geometry. Seriously! Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most
important scientific political and philosophical conundrums we face. The word 'geometry' from
the Greek means 'measuring the world'. If anything geometry doesn't just measure the world
it explains it. Shape shows us how.
