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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

byJordan Ellenberg

In Shape, Jordan Ellenberg presents a focused examination centered on the Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of mathematics and philosophy. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Penguin Press

Publication date

May 25, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9781984879059