Penrose: "I really like the way you presented it. And i've seen a couple of authors attempt it, but i think you stuck the landing" He says that in some sense, what's required of you to write about where these ideas came from is similar to what he does as a teacher. Penrose: "Both require you to imagine your way into the state of not understanding the thing."
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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