Jordan Ellenberg, Author . Coffee House $14 (248p) ISBN 978-1566891394
A prominent scholar who stops speaking in the late 1960s is the unlikely central figure of this clever campus satire, the debut of a young Princeton mathematics professor. Thirteen years after Prof. Stanley Higgs mysteriously clams up, Sam...
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Jordan Ellenberg. Penguin Press, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59420-522-4
In this wry, accessible, and entertaining exploration of everyday math, Ellenberg, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, shows readers how “knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs” that reveal the hidden
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Jordan Ellenberg. Penguin Press, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-984-87905-9
Math professor Ellenberg (How Not to Be Wrong) shows how challenging mathematics informs real-world problems in this breezy survey. “Geometry,” Ellenberg writes, is “at the heart of what’s required for real figuring in the world,” and in 14...
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