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Shape : the hidden geometry of absolutely everything / Jordan Ellenberg.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
516 ELLE	Adult Non Fiction		Lakemba .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780241510452 (paperback)
Name	Ellenberg, Jordan, 1971- author.
Title	Shape : the hidden geometry of absolutely everything / Jordan Ellenberg.
Published	[London] : Allen Lane, 2021.
Published	©2021
Description	463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	A whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analysing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriously! Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most important scientific, political and philosophical conundrums we face. The word 'geometry', from the Greek, means 'measuring the world'. If anything, geometry doesn't just measure the world, it explains it. Shape shows us how.
Subjects	Geometry
Subjects	Shapes
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Geometry . Shapes . See Also: Mathematics . Trigonometry . Authors: Ellenberg, Jordan, 1971- .