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Shape
The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
Taschenbuch von Jordan Ellenberg
Sprache: Englisch

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The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wrong

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.

The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wrong

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.

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geometrie
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 465
Inhalt: 480 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141991511
ISBN-10: 0141991518
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 469415
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ellenberg, Jordan
Besonderheit: Unsere Tipps
Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 195 x 129 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jordan Ellenberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
preigu-id: 120630971
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geometrie
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 465
Inhalt: 480 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141991511
ISBN-10: 0141991518
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 469415
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ellenberg, Jordan
Besonderheit: Unsere Tipps
Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 195 x 129 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jordan Ellenberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
preigu-id: 120630971
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