Shape av Jordan Ellenberg

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<p><b>The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of <i>How Not to Be Wrong</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 <i>is</i> 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.<br><br>In <i>Shape,</i><i>Sunda