216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg

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🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	But we are in the same time zone which oddly I can make that connect to some of the ideas in your book where
0:07.6	There's some sort of topological truth about the fact that we exist on some sort of similar times in space at the moment
0:14.6	Though we are separated geographically
0:17.6	Exactly right to it, you know, it's calling different things by the same name. Oh, yes, that is similar places on the globe
0:22.9	that is
0:24.4	What oh my god?
0:25.4	Do I have a note that says that that's what math is calling different things with the same names somebody said that
0:31.3	That's what Poincare is that one of his famous slogans. There it is. Yeah, there's a lot. He was an aphoristic dude
0:35.9	Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things
0:39.4	Which is what I'm going to say for us my life is if I understand that in totality like you do
0:44.1	You're gonna understand it by the end of this discussion. Okay. I'm looking forward to it. This is
0:55.4	I
1:09.8	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode
1:16.0	216
1:25.4	Oh
1:33.2	For me the bridge of asses
1:35.6	Segways naturally into a very important question that you spend an incredible amount of time on the book and that question is
1:43.4	How many holes does a straw have and I will ask the people for people listening take a second
1:50.3	Pause if you have to and ask yourself how many holes does a straw have ask other people around you this question too and
1:57.1	Get into it because believe it or not you really can get into it
2:01.4	So I will hand off to I will see the floor to you sir
2:05.0	How many holes does a straw have?
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