Bücher von Jordan Ellenberg

The Freakonomics of matha math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we dothe whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does ';public opinion' really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician's method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the laymanminus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is ';an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.' With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.

The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore, and when to change the equation entirely. Along the way, he explains calculus in a single page, describes G del's theorem using only one-syllable words, and reveals how early you actually need to get to the airport.

Die meisten Menschen erinnern sich an Geometrie als sterile Übungen im Staub der neunten Klasse. Eine obskure Reihe von seltsamen Schritten zu noch unverständlicheren Beweisführungen, nur um eine Tatsache über Dreiecke zu zeigen, die von vornherein klar war. Und doch ist das nur ein winziger Teil der eigentlichen Geometrie.Jordan Ellenberg - einer der führenden Mathematiker unserer Zeit - offenbart in »Shape«, dass es die Geometrie ist, die hinter einigen der wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen, politischen und philosophischen Probleme steckt, denen wir gegenüberstehen: Wie sollte eine Demokratie ihre Vertreter wählen? Wie kann man verhindern, dass eine Pandemie die Welt überschwemmt? Wie lernen Computer? Können antike griechische Proportionen den Aktienmarkt vorhersagen? Was sollten Kinder in der Schule lernen, wenn sie wirklich denken lernen wollen? Alles Fragen zur Geometrie. Denn schon das Wort »Geometrie« kommt aus dem Griechischen und bedeutet »Vermessung der Welt«. Und selbst das ist eine Untertreibung: Denn die Geometrie misst die Welt nicht nur, sie erklärt sie auch.Jordan Ellenbergs Blickwinkel auf die Welt bietet eine radikal andere Perspektive auf die verborgene Geometrie hinter Biologie, Strategie, Information, Demokratie - und eigentlich absolut allem.