There's sort of three answers that people give. Some say there are no holes in it because a straw, you can make it out of a rectangle of plastic,. Attach the ends together, now it's a straw. A square doesn't have a hole in it, and i didn't punch a hole inIt, so still no mole. That's our view. And others will say, no, i have added a hole. But to use language to describe it, you necessarily must say, i poke a hole in the bottom, so therefore i haveadded a hole to the thing. And now we don't know if we're playing a language game or we are playing a mathematical
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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