Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse in Science and Inquiry

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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse

Jordan Ellenberg

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 31, 2023

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Sep 11, 2021 David Rubenstein rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science, politics, audiobook, mathematics, computers

I loved Jordan Ellenberg's earlier book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and it was a hard act to follow. But not for Ellenberg, as this book is also great. While the title, "Shape" implies that this book is about geometry--and it is--it is also about so much more. This book shows how mathematics is applicable to just about everything under the sun. And Ellenberg manages to make it all so fascinating! The sheer depth at which he covers an incredibly diverse range of topi ...more

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Oct 15, 2021 ktsn rated it it was ok

Shelves: math

After finishing this book I start to doubt why I gave the author's previous book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking 5 stars. A change of my taste? Or the quality of the same author can go down so significantly in just a few years?

In short, a lot of big words but doesn't really deliver. The author tries to make the point that geometry is fundamental and omnipresent (which I agree), but his way of argument is to redefine everything as geometry -- basically anything counts as l ...more

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