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Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QA446 .E45 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellenberg, Jordan, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry.
- Shapes.
- Physical Description:
- 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ellenberg, Jordan, Shape
- ISBN:
- 9781984879059
- 1984879057
- 9780593299739
- 0593299736
- OCLC:
- 1226171979
- Publisher Number:
- 99987413802
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