Il bestseller internazionale: un'esplorazione intelligente e divertente della geometria che sta alla base del nostro mondo, dall'autore di How Not to Be Wrong Come dovrebbe una democrazia scegliere i suoi rappresentanti? Come puoi impedire a una pandemia di travolgere il mondo? Come imparano i computer a giocare a scacchi? Le proporzioni dell'antica Grecia possono predire il mercato azionario? (Mi dispiace, no.) Cosa dovrebbero imparare i tuoi figli a scuola se vogliono davvero imparare a pensare? Le risposte a tutte queste domande si possono trovare nella geometria. Se sei come la maggior parte delle persone, la geometria è un esercizio vagamente ricordato, tramandato dagli antichi, che hai volentieri lasciato a scuola. Sembrava un modo tortuoso di dimostrare un fatto sui triangoli che ti era ovvio in primo luogo. Questa non è geometria. OK, è geometria, ma solo una piccola parte, che ha tanto a che fare con la disciplina moderna e in rapida evoluzione quanto la coniugazione di un verbo ha a che fare con un grande romanzo. In Shape, l'autore di bestseller del Sunday Times Jordan Ellenberg rivela la geometria sottostante ad alcuni dei più importanti problemi scientifici, politici e filosofici che affrontiamo, dalla diffusione del coronavirus all'ascesa dell'apprendimento automatico. La parola "geometria", dal greco, significa "misurare il mondo". Ma la geometria non si limita a misurare il mondo, lo spiega. Shape ci mostra come.
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Jordan Ellenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and the Sunday Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, as well as an award-winning novel, The Grasshopper King. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and writes regularly for The New York Times, Washington Post and Wired.
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 explains it. Shape shows us how.
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