351: The Hidden Geometry of Information and Everything Else with Jordan Ellenberg
“We are geometric beings, we live in space, we move in space, we think of things in terms of, you know, where things are, and what they look like, and how they’re moving. Those are all geometric notions.”
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Jordan Ellenberg, returns for another visit to the podcast today. Jordan has held an NSF-CAREER grant and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and in 2013 he was named one of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. His work has appeared in a number of publications including New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Wired, and he is the author of several books, the most recent of which, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else, forms the basis for today’s conversation with Indre.
