How Did You Learn Geometry as a Kid?

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i didn't understand, i had no concept in any of my math classes. How it connected to anything in the physical how it connected to any deeper truths. The idea that all this had a philosophical shroud around it came way later. And also, the gift of a animations and gifts and things on the internet allowed me to see things like pie whats or pibanace sequence. Seeing it visually really changed the way that i understood the thingd. That was completelyabse from my entire experience being taught in schools.

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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