• Shape

  • The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
  • By: Jordan Ellenberg
  • Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
  • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does disease spread? How do computers teach themselves chess and why is chess easier for them than analysing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry.

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.

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©2021 Jordan Ellenberg (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Interesting but not as much as hoped for

The book was quite interesting but not as much as I had hoped for. I have to say I liked the part about the gerrymandering a lot. The other aspects were in part less interesting.

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