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The Atlantic The mathematician Jordan Ellenberg discusses gerrymandering, bad COVID-19 projections, and how geometry explains the world. About the author: Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and the media. He is the author of Hit Makersand the host of the podcast So you’re walking down the street carrying a hot slice of pizza on a paper plate. The tip of the slice is so heavy with cheese and sauce that it’s drooping toward the gr...

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Many people don't understand how much math and specifically geometry govern their everyday life. We even come out of the womb wanting to know where things are, what they look like and how to get from one place to another, all geometry. That's the topic of a new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else. Author UW-Madison Mathematics Professor Jordan Ellenberg joins us today.

Slate has relationships with various online retailers. If you buy something through our links, Slate may earn an affiliate commission. We update links when possible, but note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change. All prices were up to date at the time of publication.  by Jordan Ellenberg. © Penguin Press 2021. On May 5, 2020, the White House Council of Economic Advis­ers posted a chart showing deaths from COVID‑19 in the U.S. up to that time, together with...

Mystery to Me livestream, discussing "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else," with Meredith Broussard, via Crowdcast. RSVP for link.

Isthmus Picks for May 20-27 features a return to live theater from American Players Theatre and Madison Shakespeare Company, virtual community leadership awards presentations from YWCA Madison and Madison College, and much more.

‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. Credit.... “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. About girls, he reassures his young charges: “They’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything.” Certainly not geometry, that maker of men. Stelling embodied British peda...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins ...