Shape
the hidden geometry of information biology strategy democracy and everything else
Shape
the hidden geometry of information biology strategy democracy and everything else
Book - 2021
"Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. Geometry doesn't just measure the world-it explains it. Shape shows us how"--
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Penguin Press,
2021.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Shape : |b the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / |c Jordan Ellenberg. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Penguin Press, |c 2021. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2021 | |
| 300 | |a 463 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Where things are and what they look like -- "I vote for Euclid" -- How many holes does a straw have? -- Giving the same name to different things -- A fragment of the sphinx -- "His style was invincibility" -- The mysterious power of trial and error -- Artificial Intelligence as mountaineering -- You are your own negative-first cousin, and other maps -- Three years of Sundays -- What happened today will happen tomorrow -- The terrible law of increase -- The smoke in the leaf -- A rumple in space -- How math broke democracy (and might still save it) -- I prove a theorem and the house expands. | |
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