328 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can go to Kitted K-I-T-T-E-D dot shop and use the code Smart50, S-M-A-R-T-5-0 at checkout, |
| 0:09.0 | and you will get half off a set of thinking superpowers in a box. |
| 0:14.2 | If you want to know more about what I'm talking about, check it out, middle of the show. |
| 0:20.1 | But we are in the same time zone, which oddly, I can make that connect to some of the ideas in your book, |
| 0:26.2 | where there's some sort of topological truth about the fact that we exist in some sort of similar times in space at the moment, |
| 0:33.5 | though we are separated geographically. |
| 0:36.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:37.1 | So it's calling different things by the same name. |
| 0:39.4 | Places on the globe. |
| 0:55.8 | What, oh my God, do I have a note that says that? That's what math is calling different things by the same names. Somebody said that. That's what Poincaray said, one of his famous slogans. There it is. He has a lot. He was an aphoristic dude. mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things, which is what I'm going to say for the rest of my life is if I understand that in totality like you do. |
| 1:00.1 | You're going to understand it by the end of this discussion. |
| 1:02.1 | Okay. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm looking forward to it. |
| 1:03.7 | This is a... |
| 1:04.2 | This is a... |
| 1:05.0 | ...theidmore down into the middle of the parties and the get. |
| 1:12.6 | Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart podcast. |
| 1:30.4 | Episode 328. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you. For me, the bridge of asses segways naturally into a very important question that you spend an incredible amount of time on in the book. |
| 1:57.7 | And that question is, how many holes does a straw have? And I will ask |
| 2:02.7 | the, for people listening, take a second, pause if you have to, and ask yourself, how many |
| 2:09.0 | holes does a straw have? Ask other people around you this question too, and get into it. Because |
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