"I was like, i really wanted to actually be er in the depths of a psychodelic freak out. Because when hou said, how many holes do pants have? Like, oh, no. I now i have to thin gotas a challenge for the one holers," he says. "If there's two very compelling answers that both seem to sort of strike a chord and feel right mathematically, it's very re that the right conclusion is one is right and one is wrong."
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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