Lincoln was troubled by the fact that he had been in congress once, but it was before he was president. He realized that he needed to go back to euclid to understand what a demonstration was. Loved listening to his buddi's talk about him. The gift of this math is never taught to me in any class ever, but i have found a better understanding of it later because of people like yourself who hold onto these propositions at least until they're proven true.
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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