Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

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Pros

The book is chock-full of interesting stories about mathematical personalities (especially henri poincaré). What math book has quotes from current supreme court justices? A sense of puckish humor permeates the book. The author is one of the smartest p... Read More

In a world overrun by disinformation and sloppy thinking, shape is the antithesis and the genuine article. Shape is a paean to rigorous the ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It really tells you... Read More

Cons

The book is a bit of a hodgepodge. It feels like a first draft that got a stamp of approval by everyone on it's way to publication without any revision or editing.

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Quality

Thats because ellenberg also provides the whole historical matrix of who came up with an idea whose work motivated it in the fi... Read More

It’s hard to settle for a nonproof once you’ve really familiarized yourself with the genuine article

Amazing insights from what we thought we learned in high school if the reader just sticks with the hard stuff up front

I dont disagree with the thoughts but it didnt feel like the thoughts were as mature towards the end as they were at the beginn... Read More

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Ellenberg is funny selfdeprecating and a great teacher

Competitiveness

Moon duchins recom analysis her brilliant way to assess the fairness versus sneakiness of redistricting maps

Once upon a time back in college there was a kid who was winning not just all the awards in mathematics and by awards i mean to... Read More

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This product had a total of 449 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 2 2022.