TODAY'S GUEST   Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. His new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, came out earlier this year. Jordan lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and his blog is called Quomodocumque, which means "after whatever fashion" in Latin.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss: [2:56] Takeaways from teaching online [8:27] Early revelations about math [15:56] From academia to writing [18:54] A new way of teaching math [31:08] Lincoln and geometry [36:35] The geometry of gerrymandering [44:59] Comparing between the Israeli and the US political systems [52:21] How geometry helps in deep learning and AI [57:20] The geometry of reality [1:04:26] The philosophy of entropy [1:08:09] A non-sermon about sermons   EPISODE LINKS Jordan's Links 🌍 Jordan Ellenberg on Wikipedia 🌍 Jordan's website 📘 Shape - The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else 📕 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking 📣 Twitter: @JSellenberg Other Links 📔 Inventional Geometry   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: [email protected] 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium  

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