How General Is This Concept of Symmetry?

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i call it a scronch because it just seemed like a funny word, words that sound funny. It's not a technical term. You don't yo like cong o? No, you just did what? Cono? You made a word. Way, what words did con make up? He made up the wor yes e, that which i think iis great. Ayes cranch away, yes o, it. But he was like, it really makes it if i turn this into a brick, i can then build things out of this brick instead of and then that gives me the ability to have a much more complicated abstraction. Like, it's not that it didn

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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