Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything - Jordan Ellenberg

Brand: Penguin | Status: Còn hàng

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"I learned a lot from this book though I had to work at it. I couldn't make any progress in the evenings when my old brain was tired but it was worth it to spend my mornings pondering and comprehending. Most of the topics are explained well and accessible to those of us without math degrees. One of the things I was interested in, eigenvalues, which had formed the basis of programs I had used, weren't covered well. A few lines and we were supposed to get it and understand how it applied to other topics. While this upset me, there was so much value in the book otherwise that I had to give it 5 stars." - Goodreads Reviewer

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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.