Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

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Linear algebra allows one to extend one’s intuition about three-dimensional space to spaces of whatever dimension you like; This book has many excellent pieces but they are poorly linked together and surrounded by bloat. In my opinion, it could be polished into another masterpiece (like his previous book "How Not to be Wrong") if the theme was more concrete and topics were more carefully strung together. From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything.

He’s approaching the problem just the way a mathematician would – starting from the end of the game. That’s no surprise; we are all mathematicians in the deep strategic parts of our brain, whether it says that on our business cards or not. p. 115 Next, I did the cover for the book birthday cake. With some dark pink icing (using the round tip), I piped a long line all around the book for the cover. I also piped in the tiny triangle piece cut out earlier.

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Serious mathematics at its intriguing, transporting best . . . [a] humorous, anecdotally rich dive into numerous mathematical theories.” —Kirkus From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, himself a world-class geometer, a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything Book cakes may sound difficult to make but in reality, they are fairly easy even though a bit of carving is required on the cake. Here is one such book cake I have made. It’s an open book cake idea, and the decoration was done entirely in butter icing. A cake that looks like a book - an open book cake in butter icing

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The book is loosely related by the theme of geometry. It isn't only about plane geometry, though, and has fun explorations of topology, random walks (the mathematical kind), neural networks via gradient descent, networks/graph theory, and even a chapter on the math of gerrymandering. That was not an all-comprehensive list, either. A little girl finds different shapes around the city including a square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval, diamond, and star. Use this book to inspire your own environmental shape hunt. Gorgeous watercolor and collage illustrations.

I really enjoyed Jordan Ellenberg’s earlier book How Not to be Wrong, so looked forward to Shape with some anticipation. In principle what we have here is a book about geometry - but not seen from the direction of the (dare I say it) rather boring, Euclid-based geometry textbooks some of us suffered at school. Instead Ellenberg sets out to show how geometry underlies pretty much everything. This was just all over the place for me. At times, it was a two star read and somewhat boring (quite possibly because I know most of the math Ellenberg is describing); at times, it was a wonderful application of mathematical principles. As children begin to learn, you can look for shapes in your environment. Talk about what you notice. Then, compare how objects are the same or different. One of the longest parts, too long for my taste, was about gerrymandering. The key question is can you prove that districts were created specifically to give a certain party the advantage? The simple fact that percent of representatives chosen is not proportional to the number of members of each party is not enough to prove it. For example, Massachusetts has some percentage of Republicans, but no Republican wins seats, and that is not Gerrymandering. People of all parties are randomly spread-out in Massachusetts, so that is just the way things turn out. But Wisconsin is a different story. Anyone who looks hard at that state can see that it was obviously rigged. And the people who rigged it pretty much admit that is what they did. But, still, can you prove it?Shape" is the successor of Ellenbergs' popular work "How Not to Be Wrong". Whereas the earlier book showed how to use mathematical thinking in everyday life (and win the lottery), this book aims to show that geometry is absolutely everywhere. I am no mathematician, but I have the feeling that Ellenberg considers absolutely everything geometry. There is a chapter on Euclid, about Euclid, the topology of straws and pants, Gerrymandering but also about random walks, graphs game theory, the uncertainty principle, etc. Nothing much connects the chapters, so the whole style felt meandering. Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes by Hena Khan, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini