In the history of physics, you eventually have to accept that these kinds of symmetries are the ones that space time actually has. So this is what happens when you start to really wrestle with how relativity works. There's a story from art history wit the creation of a a perspective. And once that's introduced, into art, all the sudden, there's this moment where art looks like the real world and gets crazy again.
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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