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The international bestseller a whip smart entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world from the author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its representatives How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world How do computers learn to play chess Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market Sorry no What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think The answers to all these questions can be found in geometry If you re like most people geometry is a dimly remembered exercise handed down from the ancients that you gladly left behind in school It seemed to be a tortuous way of proving some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place That s not geometry OK it is geometry but only a tiny part that has as much to do with the modern fast moving discipline as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel In Shape Sunday Times bestselling author Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific political and philosophical problems we face from the spread of coronavirus to rise of machine learning The word geometry from the Greek means measuring the world But geometry doesn t just measure the world it e