This week's brodcast features an interview with a professor of mathematics. We will discuss his new book, shape and the hidden geometry of information. And how many holes does a straw have? The show also explores why computers learn to play go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence.
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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