Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything - Couverture rigide

Ellenberg, Jordan

 
9780241413524: Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
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ISBN 10 : 0241413524 ISBN 13 : 9780241413524
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2021

Synopsis

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, a hugely entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world

How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play chess? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? The answers to all these questions can be found in geometry.

If you're like most people, geometry is a dimly-remembered exercise, handed down from the ancients, that you gladly left behind in school. It seemed to be a tortuous way of proving some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. OK, it is geometry, but only a tiny part, that has as much to do with the modern, fast-moving discipline as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel.

In Shape, Sunday Times-bestselling author Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face, from the spread of coronavirus to rise of machine learning. The word 'geometry,' from the Greek, means 'measuring the world.' But geometry doesn't just measure the world - it explains it. Shape shows us how.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jordan Ellenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and the Sunday Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, as well as an award-winning novel, The Grasshopper King. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and writes regularly for The New York Times, Washington Post and Wired.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241413524
ISBN 13 
9780241413524
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Editeur : Penguin, 2022
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