Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

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 analyzing 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 doesnt just measure the world it explains it. Shape shows us how.