Is There a Thing Aren't You Sure About?

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i wish i could tell you that the world of mathematicians was a world in which we just, like, constantly went around beinge utterly honest with each other and with ourselves. I don't want to oversell in the following sense. There are plenty of professional mepetitions out there well versed in all manner of advanced geometry. And then you pivot into non uclidian geometry, and you use this phrase that i've never heard before, and id like to hear you wax poetic about it. That is the bridge of asses.

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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