I Love the Word Genealogy

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The author says he tries to humanize the practice of mathematics. "Mathematics is a human activity, and every single formalism we have in mathematics was created by people to solve a problem that they had" In his new book 'i love the word genealogy' He also talks about how socrates thought their ideas came from another dimension.

In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.

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