Podcast appearances and mentions of Jordan Ellenberg

Episode SummaryIn this episode of OnBase, host Chris Moody sits down with Abhishek Damani to discuss the critical role of aligning sales performance metrics with broader business goals. They explore why traditional sales metrics sometimes fall short and how companies can define KPIs that reflect strategic priorities.Abhishek also shares his structured four-step approach for identifying and tracking performance indicators, along with insights into how AI is transforming sales processes. Whether you're a revenue leader, a sales manager, or a marketer looking to bridge the gap with sales teams, this episode is packed with practical takeaways on driving efficiency and improving business impact.About the GuestAbhishek Damani leads sales enablement for Industrial markets business at Cummins Inc., where he's responsible for driving sales functional excellence by implementing tools and creating resources, training, and KPIs to improve sales teams' productivity.Cummins Inc. is a global power solutions leader helping its customers successfully navigate the energy transition with its broad portfolio of products. The products range from advanced diesel, natural gas, electric, and hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 75,500 people committed to powering a more prosperous world.Connect with Abhishek DamaniKey Takeaways- Aligning Sales KPIs with Business Goals is Crucial:Measuring only revenue growth can create misalignment with broader company objectives like profitability or market expansion. Sales teams must tailor their KPIs to reflect business priorities.- Traditional Sales Metrics Have Blind Spots:While win rate and sales velocity are important, they fail to capture long-term trends like customer sustainability goals, industry shifts, and regional sales discrepancies.- Four Steps to Defining Impactful KPIs:Understand strategic and operational business goals.Identify KPIs that track progress toward those goals.Determine how sales contributes to those metrics and what data is required.Measure progress and drive accountability.- AI is Enhancing Sales Processes:From summarizing meeting notes to tracking customer engagement and automating administrative tasks like expense reporting, AI is freeing up valuable time for sales teams.- Bridging Sales and Marketing with Data:Cummins uses a structured business planning process to ensure sales forecasts align with market trends, breaking silos between sales, marketing, and engineering teams.Quotes"If KPIs don't align with company goals, everyone gets frustrated. Sales meets their numbers, but leadership still isn't happy."Tech Recommendations-reMarkable Paper Tablet – A digital notebook for handwritten notes and organization.- AI-Powered Meeting Note Summarizers – Automating administrative tasks like note-taking and action item tracking.Recommended ResourceBooks:-How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg.-The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins.Podcast:-Everyday AI Podcast by Jordan Wilson.⁠Connect with Abhishek Damani⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠|⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠|⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with Presidential polling and prognosticating in the air, we listen back to Mike's 2018 with Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about his book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. We also listen back to Mike's Spiel, in which he recounts the RFK bear fiasco … in song.    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does telling yourself you live a charmed life work? Does feeling lucky bring on more of that? Katie doesn't think it's useful metric, and in this edition of Doing What Works she explains why.Here are your show notes…We got the idea for a show about luck from George Mack.There's a podcast about Billy Joel's “We Didn't Start the Fire.”A What Color Is Your Parachute? workshop was a class on making a life transition.The Law of Attraction was the basis for The Secret.Is the Universe hostile or friendly? Albert Einstein thought that's the most important question.Jordan Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong.Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying the harder he works, the luckier he gets.Earl Nightingale is quoted as saying luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Alex Lickerman talks about indestructible happiness in his book, The Undefeated Mind.

Cue the orchestra! It's time for the Besties! This is a celebration of the year that was, and a shout out to 10 of our favorite episodes of 2023. We've got guest stars, cameos, and a song-and-dance number that will leave you speechless. Oh wait, sorry, we had to cut the dance—these award shows are always running long. Host: David Gardner Guests: Arthur Brooks, Elizabeth Hargrave, Jordan Ellenberg, Mahan Tavakoli, Thi Nguyen, Warren Berger, Ed Brooks Producer: Rick Engdahl

A great addition to the Arts Pod, mathematician and author Jordan Ellenberg calculates the multiplicity of areas covered by his mentor, Peggy Pfeiffer, who combined various factors to create a writers salon in their high school. We can only discuss a fraction of their infinite knowledge, but we divide and conquer hosting duties with Dr. Erica Litke, associate professor of mathematics education in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Delaware. JORDAN ELLENBERG is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His research centers on number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Not To Be Wrong and Shape, the decidedly non-bestselling novel The Grasshopper King, and articles on mathematical topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines. Learn more about Jordan: Website: www.jordanellenberg.com/ Amazon Book Page: www.amazon.com/stores/Jordan-Ellenberg/author/B001K8IUCG DR. ERICA LITKE is an associate professor specializing in mathematics education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on understanding and improving instructional quality in mathematics for students in the elementary and secondary grades. Her research has described and analyzed instructional practice in mathematics using observation instruments, connected instructional quality in mathematics to broader policy-related issues in education, and focused on teacher knowledge and professional development. Follow Erica: Twitter @ericalitke Bluesky: @ericalitke.bsky.social

Political parties have long known that controlling WHO can vote in an election carries a strategic advantage. Pick your voters, win your election. Hence, we fight over maps.  Data science has made it easier than ever to create maps designed to ensure political outcomes. We now have fewer political districts that look like odd-shaped creatures and more that come from strategic targeting of voters based on data profiles and algorithms.  Princeton University's Gerrymandering Project calls Wisconsin's political maps “some of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in the United States.” The U.S. Supreme Court declined to strike down Wisconsin's political maps in 2018. But there are two new lawsuits asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to do so now. Jordan Ellenberg, UW-Madison math professor, explains how he can prove Wisconsin's maps are gerrymandered.  Also on the show:

In seinem Buch zeigt Jordan Ellenberg, wie viele Mathematik von der Geometrie her betrachtet werden kann und zeigt an Beispielen, wie man mit diesem Blick und Mathematik verschiedene Phänomene verstehen kann

Do you remember when you were in school? Or maybe you have kids there now. That age-old question always comes up in math class: "What am I ever going to use this for?" Well, turns out the answer is "everyday life!" And as this week's author, Jordan Ellenberg, will show you, the power of mathematical thinking can lead you to smarter, happier, and richer outcomes. Host: David Gardner Guest: Jordan Ellenberg Producer: Rick Engdahl

¡Hola! Soy Jaime Sotomayor, conductor deI podcast Innovación Sin Barreras.En este episodio tengo el honor de presentar como invitado a Julian Colombo, CEO de N5, una empresa que se especializa en software para la industria financiera. A lo largo de su carrera, Julian ha demostrado ser un líder en el mundo de la tecnología financiera, con un enfoque en resolver problemas específicos en la industria financiera con soluciones de software innovadoras y efectivas.Julian viene del mundo de la tecnología financiera, habiendo trabajado en diversas iniciativas y empresas. Su filosofía se basa en la idea de que es esencial enfocarse primero en lo importante, en las fundaciones y en lo estructural antes de pasar a la sofisticación. Según Julian, es crucial resolver problemas básicos antes de pasar a soluciones más sofisticadas.En nuestra conversación, Julian nos habla de su visión sobre la creación de software para la industria financiera. Discutimos los desafíos y aprendizajes de este proceso, así como las estrategias que ha utilizado para establecer y crecer su propia empresa. Julian nos comparte detalles sobre cómo su software es diferente de otros en el mercado y cómo se centra en resolver problemas específicos en la industria financiera.Además, Julian discute la importancia de cobrar precios que remuneran el esfuerzo de su empresa y permiten su desarrollo continuo. Según Julian, es esencial ofrecer soluciones a problemas específicos en lugar de tratar de ser todo para todos.---¿Qué escucharás en este episodio?La tecnología en la industria financiera.La importancia de enfocarse en lo fundamental antes de pasar a soluciones sofisticadas.La visión de Julian sobre la creación de software para la industria financiera.Los desafíos y aprendizajes en el proceso de establecer y crecer su propia empresa.La importancia de cobrar precios justos y ofrecer soluciones a problemas específicos.La diferencia entre trabajar con proveedores genéricos y especializados en la banca.Recomendaciones para bancos antiguos y nuevos en la gestión de temas tecnológicos.Reflexiones sobre la vida, relaciones y enfoque en los resultados.---Recomendaciones:"Tom Sawyer", "Ambar", "El diario de Dan y Eva" de Mark Twain."Pensando, rápido y despacio" de Daniel Kahneman."El Cisne Negro" y "Engañados por el azar" de Nassim Nicholas Taleb."The Hard Thing About Hard Things" de Ben Horowitz."Secrets of Sand Hill Road" de Scott Kupor."Sapiens" de Yuval Noah Harari."La señal y el ruido" de Jordan Ellenberg."El juego del colgado" de Gisela Colombo (hermana de Julian).---¿Te gustó este episodio? Te invito a suscribirte gratuitamente al podcast y al newsletter de Innovación Sin Barreras en https://blog.jaime.pe/. Así no te perderás de ninguna de nuestras entrevistas sobre startups, tecnología e innovación, donde extraemos valiosos aprendizajes directamente de aquellas personas en la cancha. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.jaime.pe

Remember that person who budged in line at the coffee shop? It's not the kind of thing you'd write to an advice columnist about, granted. But I bet you regaled your sweetheart with quite the tale of indignation! Katie and I think waiting in line is a fascinating study in human behavior, and if you don't agree you haven't listened to this encore edition of Doing What Works. Maybe you could partake the next time you're waiting in line.Here are your show notes…Our Minnesota is showing when we call it budging! So says How Not to Be Wrong author Jordan Ellenberg.There's a science to this.Are you in heavy traffic that's merging from two lanes to one? Do the zipper! And, yes. It's a thing.What kind of stories do you make up about the people who annoy you in line?

» Die Themen der Folge 220: --- (00:05:26) » NVIDIA: AI-Rakete und BigTech-Konzentration https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/how-the-ai-explosion-could-save-the-market-and-maybe-the-economy.html https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ai-stocks-chatgpt-invest-nvidia-google-microsoft-tech-artificial-intelligence-2023-5 https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/28/23740908/nvidia-ace-demo-voice-ai-npc-game-characters https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/25/nvidia-shares-leap-ai-boom-chip-us-tech-firm-valuation (00:19:21) » Adobe: AI-Reinvention https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/23/adobe-to-integrate-ai-into-photoshop-amid-fears-of-job-losses-and-mass-faking-of-images https://boingboing.net/2023/05/24/photoshops-built-in-ai-is-incredible.html https://twitter.com/nathanlands/status/1662881442651869184 (00:23:00) » LLM-Verständnis und AI-Disruption https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/texas-am-chatgpt-ai-professor-flunks-students-false-claims-1234736601/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html (00:) » Sam Altman und AI-Regulation https://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-05/sam-altmann-openai-ceo-chat-gpt-ki/komplettansicht https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-eu-sam-altman (00:38:21) » EU-Rekordstrafe gegen Facebook https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/22/tech/meta-facebook-data-privacy-eu-fine/index.html (00:40:54) » Giphy-Zwangsverkauf durch Meta https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/meta-sell-giphy-shutterstock-antitrust (00:43:46) » Sonos gewinnt im Patent-Streit gegen Google https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/25/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-implant-fda-approval-human-study (00:46:35) » Neuralink mit Zulassung durch FDA (00:50:29) » Twitter-Karma: Ron DeSantis https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23736271/ron-desantis-presidential-bid-twitter-spaces-elon-musk-announcement https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/opinion/desantis-musk-twitter.html https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/26/platformer-twitter-spaces https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-engineer-quits-desantis-glitch-b2346292.html https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1661989023961718784 (00:57:26) » Tesla-Brand stürzt ab in Beliebtheit https://t3n.de/news/absturz-tesla-unbeliebteste-automarke-usa-umfrage-1554759/ https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/corporate-brands-reputation-america (00:59:55) » Tesla Y meistverkauftes Auto https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best-selling-car-q1-2023/ (01:01:21) » Tesla-Files: Handelsblatt https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/elektromobilitaet-mein-autopilot-hat-mich-fast-umgebracht-tesla-files-naehren-zweifel-an-elon-musks-versprechen/29166564.html https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737972/tesla-whistleblower-leak-fsd-complaints-self-driving (01:03:29) » Apple MR-Headset Kostenaufstellung https://twitter.com/CixLiv/status/1660038281034350592 (01:07:01) » Flink mit Notfinanzierung https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/food/uebernahme-durch-getir-vom-tisch-flink-findet-neues-investorengeld-bewertung-sinkt-massiv/ (01:10:07) » Buchtipp https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jordan-Ellenberg/dp/0143127535

Learn on your terms. Get the PDF, infographic, full ad-free audiobook and animated version of this summary and a lot more on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Help us grow and create more amazing content for you! Rate and review the StoryShots podcast now.  What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on our free app. StoryShots Book Summary and Review of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Elleneberg  Life gets busy. Has How Not to Be Wrong been on your reading list for a while? Learn the key insights now. We're scratching the surface here. If you don't already have Jordan Ellenberg's popular book on science and mathematical thinking, order it here or get the audiobook for free on Amazon to learn the juicy details. Introduction Wouldn't you love to never be wrong? You're not alone, and it's hardly a surprise. In our work, relationships, and even our hobbies, we learn from a young age that being wrong is a mistake. Constant correct thinking is a concept that seems almost impossible, right? Wrong (ironically!).  How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg discusses ways we can make life simpler by thinking mathematically. The book dives into the world of mathematics and explores its applications in everyday life. By looking at simple and complex decisions, Ellenberg reveals our mistaken beliefs that lead to common errors in our thinking. “Mathematics is the study of things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.” — Jordan Ellenberg About Jordan Ellenberg  Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author. He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has written several books on math and its application in various fields. He received his Ph.D. in math from Harvard University in 1998 and has written for publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Wired. How Not to Be Wrong is a popular book that explores the ways mathematical thinking can help us understand and solve everyday problems. StoryShot #1: Think in a Nonlinear Way Nonlinear thinking means thinking logically about what you can and cannot control. Consider the following statement: "Where you should go depends on where you are." This nonlinear way of thinking helps you develop the skill of critical thinking and be better equipped to avoid mistakes. Imagine yourself in a car at a crossroads. When the light turns green, you drive across the road directly in front of you, not diagonally to the opposite side. This is linear thinking. Thinking in a nonlinear way gives us freedom to make choices and move forward with our lives. It also prompts more questions, which ‌leads to more answers. This allows us to acknowledge changes in our lives, even if we have no control over these changes. Linear regression is a statistical technique that looks for a linear relationship between two or more variables. For example, there is a statistic that shows that for every extra $10,000 someone earns, they are 3% more likely to vote Republican. Linear regression can help you understand how different factors influence an outcome and make predictions based on new data. However, to avoid reaching false conclusions, we must be aware that linear regression can't be used for every set of data and, if misused, produces misleading results. StoryShot #2: Understand That Math Is Part of Everything You Do StoryShot #3: Math Can Help You Win the Lottery StoryShot #4: Math Can Help Us Make Better Decisions StoryShot #5: Consider the Triumph in Mediocrity StoryShot #6: Public Opinion Doesn't Exist and Doesn't Matter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much of your life do you attribute to luck? It's a discussion even our producer, Darrell, couldn't wait to weigh in on in this edition of Doing What Works!Here are your show notes…How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg, is a book about the power of mathematical thinking.“I cleaned out my refrigerator and now I can switch careers.” ~ Someone told Gretchen Rubin that, and Gretchen knew exactly what she meant.Brooks Palmer suggests you move something to a different room to see it for what it is (probably clutter).“Leave equal time for action as reflection.” ~ That's from Dick Bolles.

A Inteligência Artificial é, com certeza, a tecnologia disruptiva que mais gera entusiasmo e polêmica ultimamente. Mas é preciso olhar além do hype. Achar que a mera adoção da tecnologia “faz mágica” é o maior risco para as empresas. Esse é um dos motivos para 80% dos projetos de IA corporativa terem falhado em 2022. Por que deu errado? E como fazer dar certo? Ricardo Taborda, Matheus Ferreira e Eduardo Abbud, especialistas em ciência de dados e machine learning, e fundadores da 7D Analytics, contam tudo.Links do episódioPara conhecer: O site da 7D AnalyticsO filme “Tudo em Todo Lugar ao Mesmo Tempo” (Everything Everywhere All at Once), que pode ser assistido no Amazon Prime.O livro “O poder do pensamento matemático”, de Jordan Ellenberg.O livro Grokking Machine Learning, de Luis SerranoO canal do YouTube, Serrano.Academy, sobre machine learningO livro Rápido e devagar: Duas formas de pensar, de Daniel KahnemanO livro Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, de Robert CialdiniO livro Os Números Não Mentem: 71 Histórias Para Entender o Mundo, de Vaclav Smil O livro Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence, de Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans  e Avi Goldfarb_____FALE CONOSCOEmail: news@theshift.info_____ASSINE A THE SHIFTwww.theshift.info

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 is a mathematical physicist and writer and the author of What's Good About Bad Luck? He joins Lexman to talk about the strange relationship between proparoxytone andNames.

Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and philosopher. In this episode, he discusses why he's concerned about the trend of upsetting first world people with worse conditions in developing countries.

Lexman Artificial talks to math professor Jordan Ellenberg about color and trumping in game theory.

Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematics professor and the author of "God's Equation: An Computational Theory of Religion" and "Love and Math: The Science of Love." He joins Lexman to discuss his new book, which argues that belief in numerology and other so-called “magical” number systems is actually very rational.

Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematics professor at Stanford and the author of The Calculus of Happiness, joins Lexman to discuss calculus, dehiscence, and lampposts. They also chat about Basildon, England.

Cada eleição é sempre um universo particular, complexo e, relativamente, imprevisível. Mas alguns padrões do período pré-eleitoral permanecem estáveis, com o passar dos anos: como as campanhas, o clima de disputa ideológica e, claro, as pesquisas. Em todo o mundo, institutos de Estatística têm nas pesquisas eleitorais um dos seus principais produtos. Registradas e divulgadas pela mídia, as pesquisas funcionam como termômetro, monitoramento e avaliação de campanhas políticas. E, nos últimos anos, diferentes institutos e métodos têm surgido e despertado o interesse da mídia, de empresas dos mais variados setores e, principalmente, do público em geral. Por quê? No Braincast 468, Carlos Merigo, Ana Freitas e Oga Mendonça recebem Guilherme Russo, diretor de Inteligência e Insights da Quaest Pesquisa e Consultoria, para uma conversa sobre como ler, analisar e interpretar pesquisas eleitorais - sem perder a sanidade. Qual o método mais efetivo: pesquisas presenciais ou por telefone? Como atingir níveis altos de confiança? Como avaliar quais amostras são boas ou não? E, principalmente: quais os interesses por trás de um número tão alto de pesquisas, em períodos tão curtos de tempo? _____ SAIBA MAIS 3 boas indicações para fechar o programa com chave de ouro. E para abrir novas reflexões da nossa conversa! Portal | Agregador de pesquisas eleitorais | Estadão Reportagem | 7 coisas que você precisa saber antes de ler uma pesquisa eleitoral de 2022 | Brasil de Fato Livro | O Voto do Brasileiro | Alberto Carlos Almeida _____ QUAL É A BOA? As dicas dos convidados para a sua semana: Oga Mendonça: documentário "Look Away: os bastidores do rock" e livro "No Canto dos Ladinos" de Quito Ribeiro. Carlos Merigo: Portal Tiravotodojair.com. Guilherme Russo: Livro "A Soma dos Dias" de Isabela Allende e a obra da cantora Clara Valverde. Ana Freitas: Livros "Subliminar: como o inconsciente influencia nossas vidas" de Leonard Mlodinow e "O Poder do Pensamento Matemático: a ciência de como não estar errado" de Jordan Ellenberg. _____ ASSINE O BRAINCAST E FAÇA PARTE DO NOSSO GRUPO FECHADO Assinando o Braincast você pode interagir com a gente em grupos fechados no Facebook e Telegram, além de receber conteúdo exclusivo. Faça download do PicPay para iOS ou Android, clique em “Pagar”e procure pelo Braincast, ou então acesse a URL: picpay.me/braincast _____ BRAINCAST NA SUA EMPRESA Sabia que agora você pode levar o Braincast pra sua empresa? Pois é. Há anos que o Braincast te ajuda a navegar nesses tempos transformadores e incertos. Entre pandemias e o metaverso; algoritmos e fake news; a conexão 5G, a crise do clima e os choques de gerações. São mudanças tecnológicas e culturais que podem nos deixar confusos e ansiosos. Mas o Braincast tá aqui pra gente não perder a esperança no futuro, sem deixar de questionar o hype do futurismo exagerado. E agora, você pode contar com o Braincast para além do podcast. No nosso formato In Company, essa turma do barulho do Braincast realiza apresentações, cursos, mediações e workshops. É o Braincast na sua empresa. Com um grande time de pioneiros digitais te ajudando a descomplicar o futuro. Do jeito que você já gosta e conhece. Tudo isso, claro, conectado com os temas e territórios que importam para a sua marca. Conte com o Braincast para refletir e desvendar quais faíscas vão impulsionar nosso presente e futuro. Escreva pra negocios@b9.com.br para saber mais. _____ FAÇA CONTEÚDOS COM O B9 Como ouvinte do Braincast, você já deve ter percebido: aqui no B9, a gente adora uma conversa. E mais do que uma paixão, elas viraram o nosso negócio. O B9 já produziu milhares de episódios que contam histórias, expandem horizontes e criam conexões autênticas com a audiência. Através de conteúdos originais em podcast e projetos multiplataformas, o B9 também coloca marcas e empresas nessas rodas de conversa. Buscando diferentes pontos de vista e com ideias que nos tiram do raso. E pra conhecer tudo o que o B9 pode fazer pela sua marca acesse o site b9.company ou mande um email pra negocios@b9.com.br. Conte com o B9 para transformar sua marca em conteúdo e em conversas que saem do raso. _____ SIGA O BRAINCAST Seu podcast de sinapses sonoras no infinito das ideias está em todas as plataformas e redes. Inclusive, na mais próxima de você. Encontre o @braincastpod: No Instagram; no Twitter; no TikTok e na Twitch. Entre em contato através do braincast@b9.com.br. Perdeu o Qual É A Boa? Encontre todas as dicas da bancada nos destaques do nosso Instagram. _____ O Braincast é uma produção B9 Apresentação: Carlos Merigo Coordenação Geral: Ju Wallauer, Cris Bartis e Carlos Merigo Direção criativa: Alexandre Potascheff Apoio à pauta e produção: Hiago Vinicius Edição: Gabriel Pimentel Identidade Sonora: Nave, com Direção Artística de Oga Mendonça Identidade Visual: Johnny Brito Coordenação Digital: Agê Barros, Débora Stevaux e Gabriel Castilho Atendimento e Comercialização: Rachel Casmala, Camila Mazza, Greyce Lidiane e Telma Zennaro

Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, discusses his novel, "Smaltos."

Lexman and Jordan Ellenberg discuss primacies, angst over pari-mutuel betting and the ups and downs of being an upgrader.

Jordan Ellenberg is the first official mathematician we've had on the show, but his work weaves through many different domains. Afterall, whether it's something like game theory or data science, it's all built on math.Jordan Ellenberg is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics. His research centers on the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry, the parts of mathematics which address fundamental questions about algebraic equations and their solutions in whole numbers. Jordan has also been writing for a general audience about math for more than fifteen years; including “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking,” “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else,” his novel “The Grasshopper King,” and his “Do the Math” column in Slate. Jordan joins Greg to talk about what makes math special, how published studies might not be reliable, and, the geometry of how we relate to the world.Episode Quotes:Math & IntuitionImprobable things are very common. Like if you like open a book to a random page and look at it and you're like, wow, 432, what's the chance that I would've opened it to exactly the page 432, like pretty small, right? The book has a lot of pages. That's a very unlikely event. And yet something in you knows not to find that remarkable, even though it's definitely improbable. So you see how your intuition gets like a little weird and twisted around. You have to be very careful.Math class is hardWe know that it's like one of the classes that creates a lot of stress for kids. And one reason is that it is a venue where we tell people they're wrong.Math is fundamentalMath is like a fundamentally human activity. Every single human society that's ever existed does it. And if we sort of, slice off either our poetic side or our quantitative side, we're just like slicing off like part of our human nature. Why would we do that?Show Links:Resources: Geometry by Rita DoveGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at University of WisconsinJordan Ellenberg's WebsiteJordan Ellenberg on TwitterJordan Ellenberg on FacebookHis Work:Articles on SlateJordan Ellenberg on Google ScholarHow Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical ThinkingShape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything ElseThe Grasshopper King

Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about his book "The Emperor's New Clothes". Lexman discusses the mathematical underpinnings of the story and their implications for society.

In this episode, Lexman interviews Jordan Ellenberg, a philosopher and mathematician who studies cinchonizations and exemplifiers. They discuss the difference between the two concepts and how they operate in the world. Ellenberg also touches on semiotician David Keighley's work on boomerangs and how they are used as exemplifiers.

Jordan Ellenberg talks about jobbing and the Malabo peel in this interview with Lexman Artificial. He discusses the different moods that can occur when travelling to the West African country, and how to cope with them.

Jordan Ellenberg, author of The Age of Cryptocurrency, joins Lexman to discuss the rise of coparcenery, the art of collecting dice, and whether or not they're actually a good investment.

In this episode of Lexman Artificial, the guest is Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They discuss the spirality of the universe, laconisms, and the joys of being a mathematician.

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In his latest book, Shape, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry lurking beneath history, democracy, biology, and everything else. He argues geometry is a way of thinking, a method of reasoning and argument, and a system for making sense of the world.

In this episode you will hear:   (15:20) Mark and Dave discuss a Washington Post March 23rd, 2022 article by Wisconsin math professor Jordan Ellenberg, entitled, “Did Columbia game US News college rankings”. The article describes the research math professor at Columbia, Michael Thaddeus has done to expose how the data Columbia presented to US News was erroneous to such a level that it cannot be seen as an innocent mistake. He describes how Columbia moved from 18th to 2nd in the USNWR rankings. Mark and Dave discuss why this data fabrication happens all too often but they save most of their fire for exposing how preposterous the rankings are.     (40:12) Question from a listener-   If you like our article discussions, you will get a double dose in episode 222. Our question from a listener asks Lisa what she thinks of Derek Thompson, article in the Atlantic entitled, “Why American teens are so sad”. Mark describes the introductory content of the article and then he asks Lisa for feedback point by point. This is such an important topic that Lisa will take 25 minutes this week and 25 minutes next week to go into details about the four main points that the article makes. If you want to read the article, here is the link:     (01:11:10) Our Interview is with Dr. Roger Parrott, the President of Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi   Topic "What are the Major Trends Impacting Higher Education" Part 1 of 2   (01:25:50) Our recommended resource for episode 222 is the “Go to College Learning Differences college fair that occurs on Wednesday, May 4th from 11-1 pm and again on May 4th from 6:30-8:30. Here is a link to register:   (01:38:05) Our College Spotlight looks at, “Understanding The University of Illinois Chicago, aka UIC. This is part 1 of 2.       To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our free quarterly admissions deep-dive, delivered directly to your email four times a year, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign up on the right side of the page under “the Listen to our podcast icons”   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news,  and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer them on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   Don't forget to send your questions related to any and every facet of the college process to: questions@yourcollegeboundkid.com.   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you subscribe to our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live.   Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends:   Check out the college websites Mark recommends:   If you want to have some input about what you like and what you recommend we change about our podcast, please complete our Podcast survey; here is the link:   If you want a college consultation with Mark or Lisa, just text Mark at 404-664-4340 or email Lisa at lisa@schoolmatch4u.com. All they ask is that you review their services on their website before the complimentary session. Their counseling website is: https://schoolmatch4u.com/

This one's for all the adults out there who are like “hmmm maybe it's not too late to learn a little math…”! On today's episode Vanessa talks to journalist A.K. Whitney, who went back to school at 38 to learn math and chronicled it in Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, and her own podcast/website delightfully titled “The Mathochism Project”. She is basically the definition of overcoming math trauma and making it less of a stigma - but how did she do it? Why don't more people do it? And how can we make math less traumatic for women and girls?About A.K.A.K. Whitney is a journalist with 25 years of experience in print and online. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan and more. She was a regular contributor to Noodle, an educational website, writing mostly about society's fraught relationship with math, which is the subject of her website, The Mathochism Project.Show notes:A.K.'s article for Cosmopolitan: How I Finally Got Over My Fear of MathA.K's article for The Washington Post: Why did I give up on math? Ask my mom.The Ohio State MOOC calculus course that A.K. recommendsAn article about “the cult of genius” from the mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, who coined the termThe CBC article explaining why saying “it's not rocket science” isn't fair to other professionsConnect with us:A.K. Whitney: (Twitter)The Mathochism Project: (Twitter, Website)Vanessa Vakharia: @themathguru (Insta, Twitter, TikTok)Math Therapy: @maththerapy (Twitter)

Javier Leiva from Pretend did a podcast with me!!!!  Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.   We teach each other about: 03:10 a pig in a poke 06:30 salting a mine 10:00 melon drop 14:50 vanity awards 21:55 Baltimore stock-broker 25:00 fake casting agents Plus learn the three most interesting things about me! Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. Sponsors: Sly Fox Trivia, Sambucol Pig in a Poke (Cat in a bag) Have you ever heard the expression “a pig in a poke” or “don't let the cat out of the bag?” You might be surprised at the origins of this cliche. A pig in a poke is a thing that is bought without first being inspected, and thus of unknown authenticity or quality. The idiom is attested in 1555 in the writings of John Haywood: I wyll neuer bye the pyg in the poke, Thers many a foule pyg in a feyre cloke. A "poke," I should explain, is a bag, so you can't actually see the pig. How it would work… But the piglet would often turn out to be a bundle of rags or some inanimate object that gve the huckster away, so they shifted tack to stuffing stray cats in the poke so there were be movement. When the buyer opened the bag after the con man has absconded with their money, they would let hte cat out of the bag, which is where we get that expression which means to reveal a secret, though it's usually used in a positive context. Idioms in other cultures: Italian comprare a scatola chiusa to buy in a sealed box Catalan Donar/Prendre gat per llebre to give/to take cat instead of hare Chinese 隔山买老牛 buy a cow over there in another mountain Maltese xtara l-ħut fil-baħar to buy fish in the sea   Salting Salting a gold mine How do you make a worthless mine a little more valuable? Take a shotgun, stuff it with gold dust, blast the walls, and bedazzle it with gold. That's precisely what some Mine owners would do to turn a profit. But I can imagine that this confidence trick can only last for so long. Some buyers would ask to blast the mine before the sale's closing. The huckster seller would sometimes stuff gold in the stick of dynamite. After the explosion, the mine shimmered with gold. — Source 1871 was the year of the Great Diamond Hoax. Two cousins named Philip Arnold and John Slack returned to San Francisco with a bag full of diamonds. As a result, salivating investors wanted to know where they found the gems. So then, the cousins led the group of investors on a four-day goose chase through the wilderness until they finally arrived at a vast field with brilliant gems. Cha-ching! But when geologists studied the diamonds, they quickly discovered that this diamond-filled field was an elaborate con. It turns out the cousins purchased chat diamonds for about $35,000 and scattered them around the ground. Salting the tip jar Have you ever noticed the jar full of money at your favorite coffee shop or on the bar counter? Do you feel like a jerk when you don't drop in a few dollars or coins? This technique of "salting the tip jar" works almost every time. Psychologists call it "social proof." It turns out that humans want to mimic what other people do. For example, when someone claps, others clap too. And you even reluctantly stand during "the wave" at a baseball game. Social proof is used in advertising all the time. Nine out of ten dentists can't be wrong, right? Melon Drop Melon drop The mechanics of the melon drop scam are pretty simple, but it does require one specific thing: foreign tourists, specifically Japanese ones. This is because melons in Japan tend to be very expensive, sometimes costing upward of $60 USD, far more pricey than they are in the States. Presumably in the days before the internet put the sum of all human information in our pockets, hustling New York con men decided they could use this information to their advantage by pulling a fast one on Japanese visitors. According to Ask Men, the scam works like this: First, acquire a watermelon for the low price of a couple bucks here in the U.S. of A. Step two, carry the melon around until you find your mark. Then, bump into them, drop the watermelon, so it shatters, blame them for the collision, and finally demand they pay up to the exorbitant tune of up to $100 to compensate you for your broken, "expensive" produce. Although skeptics may say the melon drop scam might be a myth, at least some version of this scam is still alive and well in New York City. According to some Reddit users, NYC scammers are still pulling off the melon drop hustle, only the updated version involves expensive booze and targets anyone, not just foreign tourists. But the mechanics are pretty much the same. "That still happens in some parts of NYC with expensive liquor like Hennessy, for example. They bump into you and drop and break a bottle with water and try to guilt you into paying them back. You know when you're in the right or wrong. If you're in the right, just walk away fast," advised one Reddit user. Others shared stories of similar encounters, while still more people said they had experienced the same basic scam, only with expensive sunglasses instead of alcohol or fruit. So although some may say the melon drop is just a New York City myth, like the alligators in the sewers or the mole people, others are well aware that it is best to keep an eye out for any shifty looking strangers carrying fruit or fancy-looking bottles.   Baltimore stockbroker / Psychic Sports Picks The Baltimore stockbroker scam relies on mass-mailing or emailing. The scammer begins with a large pool of marks, numbering ideally a power of two such as 1024. The scammer divides the pool into two halves, and sends all the members of each half a prediction about the future outcome of an event with a binary outcome (such as a stock price rising or falling, or the win/loss outcome of a sporting event). One half receives a prediction that the stock price will rise (or a team will win, etc.), and the other half receives the opposite prediction. After the event occurs, the scammer repeats the process with the group that received a correct prediction, again dividing the group in half and sending each half new predictions. After several iterations, the "surviving" group of marks has received a remarkable sequence of correct predictions, whereupon the scammer then offers these marks another prediction, this time for a fee. The next prediction is, of course, no better than a random guess, but the previous record of success makes it seem to the mark to be a prediction worth great value. For gambling propositions with more than two outcomes, for example in horse racing, the scammer begins with a pool of marks with number equal to a power of the number of outcomes. The scam relies on selection bias (the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby failing to ensure that the sample obtained is representative of the population intended to be analyzed), and more specifically survivorship bias (concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not) and is similar to publication bias (a type of bias that occurs in published academic research. It occurs when the outcome of an experiment or research study influences the decision whether to publish or otherwise distribute it). This particular scam received its name as a result of Frank Deford's book "Cut N' Run", where a stockbroker in Baltimore goes to several different bars and predicts the outcome of the upcoming Johnny Unitas-era Baltimore Colts' next game. Several authors mention the scam: Daniel C. Dennett in Elbow Room (where he calls it the touting pyramid); David Hand in The Improbability Principle; and Jordan Ellenberg in How Not to Be Wrong. Ellenberg reports often hearing of the scam told as an illustrative parable, but he could not find a real-world example of anyone carrying it out as an actual scam. The closest he found was when illusionist Derren Brown presented it in his television special The System in 2008. Brown's intent was merely to convince his mark that he had a foolproof horse race betting system rather than to scam the mark out of money. However, Ellenberg goes on to describe how investment firms do something similar by starting many in-house investment funds, and closing the funds that show the lowest returns before offering the surviving funds (with their record of high returns) for sale to the public. The selection bias inherent in the surviving funds makes them unlikely to sustain their previous high returns.   Vanity publications and awards schemes Do you want to be famous and successful? It's easy. All you have to do is hand over your money. But unfortunately, scammers and con artists have cooked up schemes to pray on your vanity and need for acceptance and recognition throughout history. Vanity press Trying to get your book published can seem impossible. But there's a sure-fire way of getting your book out there. Scammers know that desperate writers will do almost anything to get their books printed. Vanity publishers make their money from publishers, not readers purchasing books. Therefore, they have no financial interest in promoting the book, leaving the author with a financial burden. 2022 Golden Globes controversy Vanity awards are pay-to-play awards given to the highest bidder. Did you know that NBC dropped the Golden Globes broadcast in 2022? Instead, the awards results were posted live on Twitter. Not only is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association accused of not having a single black voter, but they're also accused of taking bribes from studios, production companies, and publicists. Winning a Golden Globe award can equate millions of dollars in box office earnings and elevate an actor's career. Since the scandal broke out, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced new rules and added new members of color. — source Fake casting agent scam A well-connected casting director or agent can instantly make you a celebrity. However, one thing a casting agent will never do is charge you. Most casting agents make money only when you do—typically about 10%. A casting agent will never guarantee work, they make you take their classes, and they don't really care if you have prior modeling or acting experience. Finally, you should never feel rushed or pressured into doing something you don't feel comfortable with. Does your child want to be a Disney Channel Star? There is no fast track to Hollywood. If you hear or watch an ad that says, "Does your child want to be a Disney Channel Star? Auditions are being held this weekend. Call some number and book your slot."— It's a scam. Most of these so-called agencies charge an exorbitant amount of money and have no affiliation with Disney or Nickelodeon.  

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Mathematician and professor Jordan Ellenberg, author of the book “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else,” speaks with us about the limitations of logic, how math can help us develop mindful skepticism, and why gerrymandering is no longer visible to the naked eye.

Wherein we are joined by University of Wisconsin math professor Jordan Ellenberg, author of "Shape"—who only recently learned that he can own a kangaroo without a permit in his state. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Madison authors, topics, book events and publishersIt's the most wonderful time of the year, time for the Wisconsin Book Festival, 28 events this week alone, both in-person and online, and Stu Levitan welcomes one of the featured presenters, and one of the brightest stars in the firmament that is the University of Wisconsin faculty, Professor Jordan Ellenberg, to discuss his NYTimes best-seller, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Prof. Ellenberg will be appearing this Saturday at 3 o'clock at the Discovery Building, 330 N Orchard St., so Stu thought it would be a good idea to dial up an encore presentation of our conversation from this past July.As coined by the ancient Greeks, “geometry” literally means “measuring the world,” and the world which Jordan Ellenberg measures in Shape is wide and far-flung indeed. Gerrymandering, the tv show Survivor, Abraham Lincoln, pandemics and flitting mosquitoes, artificial intelligence, even an answer to the question ‘how many holes in a straw'? And it's an accessible world – yes, there are symbols and equations, and you're welcome to have pad and paper with you as you read, but the book is mainly a narrative built on stories and people.Jordan Ellenberg was not a late-bloomer. The son of two biostatisticians, he taught himself to read at age two by watching Sesame Street, he was competing in high school math competitions while in the fourth grade, and four years later he was taking honors calculus at the University of Maryland. At 17, he beat out 400,000 North American high school students to win the USA Mathematical Olympiad, and over a 3-year period took two golds and a silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad.He took his BA and Ph D at Harvard, with a masters from Johns Hopkins in creative writing in between, then started his academic career at Princeton. He came to the University of Wisconsin in 2005, made full professor in 2011, was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2014 and since 2015 has been the John D MacArthur Professor of Mathematics.His previous books include How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking in 2014 and the novel The Grasshopper King. He also has a credited cameo in the 2017 movie Gifted in the role of math professor, giving him a Kevin Bacon degree of separation of two and making him one of the extraordinarily small and select group of people with an Erdos/Bacon number. He maintains a blog Quomodocumque.wordpress.com and tweets at JSEllenberg. It is a great pleasure to welcome to MBB Professor Jordan Ellenberg.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, time for the Wisconsin Book Festival, and Stu Levitan welcomes one of the featured presenters, University of Wisconsin Professor Chad Alan Goldberg, editor of an important new volume Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, from our very good friends at the University of Wisconsin Press. Prof. Goldberg will be giving talk on his book live and in-person at the Madison Central Library on Saturday October 23, so Stu thought it would be a good idea to dial up an encore presentation of their conversation from this past March. And by the way, Stu's show next week will feature another UW professor giving an in-person presentation on the 23rd, Prof. Jordan Ellenberg, talking about his best-seller, Shape.According to Wisconsin statute 36.01(2), the mission of the university of Wisconsin system is “to develop human resources, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses and to serve and stimulate society by developing in students heightened intellectual, cultural and humane sensitivities, scientific, professional and technological expertise and a sense of purpose. Inherent in this broad mission are methods of instruction, research, extended training and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition. Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.”But not everyone agrees with that mission – especially the parts of public service, improving the human condition, and searching for truth. And over the years some people in high places have sought to change that mission in fundamental ways, even destroy it outright. Leaving us with some very important questions.What is the role of the public university in a democratic society? Specifically, what is the role of the University of Wisconsin in the democratic, pluralistic society of the 21st century? And, harking back to the words of UW President Charles Van Hise from 1905, does the beneficent influence of the university continue to reach every family in the state? If not, how do we ensure that it once again does?These are the questions Chad Alan Goldberg asks in Education for Democracy, questions he and his 11 contributors answer by examining how and why the Wisconsin Idea was born, expanded, honored – and then threatened and diminished. And they explain why it must be renewed, and suggest how to do so.The list of those contributors is quite a collection of scholars and analysts, including Prof. Katherine Cramer, author of The Politics of Resentment, environmental historian and biographer of Aldo Leopold Curt Meine, our friend, repeat guest and LGBTQ historian Dick Wagner, Wisconsin Public Radio's Emily Auerbach, and several other distinguished professors, both from the UW and elsewhere.Prof. Goldberg is very well-equipped to edit this volume, which is based on an outreach course on the Wisconsin Idea which he helped organize in 2016, and which he still teaches as Professor of Sociology. And It was Prof Goldberg who in May 2016 wrote the resolution — which the Faculty Senate adopted — expressing no confidence in the commitment by then-president Ray Cross and the Board of Regents to defend the Wisconsin Idea, which was under attack by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislature.Prof. Goldberg's previous books include Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought and Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare. He is also affiliated with the Center for German and European Studies, the George l. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the GAM program in History, all here at the UW Madison.And on a personal note, Chad and Stu are both graduates of a small school now known as New College, the Honors College of Florida, where their respective graduating classes were smaller than the class roster of his Survey of Sociology course.Thankfully, Ray Cross and Scott Walker are both gone, and Professor Chad Alan Goldberg is still here. It was a pleasure to welcome him to Madison Bookbeat.

Remember that person who budged in line at the coffee shop? It's not the kind of thing you'd write to an advice columnist about, granted. But I bet you regaled your sweetheart with quite the tale of indignation! Katie and I think waiting in line is a fascinating study in human behavior, and if you don't agree you haven't listened to this edition of Doing What Works. Maybe you could partake the next time you're waiting in line.Here are your show notes…Our Minnesota is showing when we call it budging [https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/reader-survey-do-you-cut-butt-or-budge-in-line/]! So says How Not to Be Wrong author Jordan Ellenberg, one of my favorite guests on an earlier version of the talk show. If you're interested, let me know [http://maureenanderson.com/contact.htm] and I'll send you that episode.There's a science to this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory].Are you in heavy traffic that's merging from two lanes to one? Do the zipper! And, yes. It's a thing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wgSjstvsPc].What kind of stories do you make up about the people who annoy you in line [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI]?

In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else. Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tim Harford talks to Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, about the pandemic, geometry and drinking straws. (multi-coloured straws/Getty images)

The GRID welcomes best-selling author, mathematician and professor Jordan Ellenberg, author of the new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else. He is also the best-selling author of How Not to Be Wrong, a Math Olympian and a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Though Jordan is... The post The Grid 058 ft. Jordan Ellenberg – Five-Deuce Offsuit appeared first on The Poker Grid.

Great business leaders are often seen as innovators, inspirational storytellers  and brilliant leaders. They are keen and decisive observers. But would we envision any mathematical principles in their toolkit? Just as business finds solutions to various problems and hurdles, mathematical formulas and practices make sense of our chaotic world. What can business-minded individuals learn from these insights? How do principles of randomness and probability factor into shrewd business planning? Jordan Ellenberg is the internationally-bestselling author of How Not To Be Wrong and the recently-published Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. He holds a master's in fiction writing from John Hopkins and a Ph.D. in math from Harvard. He has been writing for a general audience about math for over fifteen years and advocates for leaning into the anxieties and misunderstandings many of us have about mathematics.

How can you think better about any issue? Professor Jordan Ellenberg has the answer.In his book “Shape,” we learn how our inborn wisdom of geometry allows us to grasp the deepest information about science, politics, philosophy, and any issues we may have to deal with.Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/barrykibrick)

Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the best selling 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

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by award-winning mathematician Dr. Jordan Ellenberg to talk about his newest book, "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else." They discuss the importance of mathematics education, as well as the geometry that lies beneath the scientific, political, and philosophical problems we encounter as human beings.

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg tells us artificial intelligence is merely climbing Everest with baby steps while deep learning requires a whole lot of knobs--

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Stu Levitan welcomes one of the brightest stars in the firmament that is the University of Wisconsin faculty, Professor Jordan Ellenberg, here to talk about his New York Times best-seller, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. As coined by the ancient Greeks, “geometry” literally means “measuring the world,” and the world which Jordan Ellenberg measures in Shape is wide and far-flung indeed. Gerrymandering, the tv show Survivor, Abraham Lincoln, pandemics and flitting mosquitoes, artificial intelligence, even an answer to the question ‘how many holes in a straw'? And it's an accessible world – yes, there are symbols and equations, and you're welcome to have pad and paper with you as you read, but the book is mainly a narrative built on stories and people. Jordan Ellenberg was not a late-bloomer. The son of two biostatisticians, he taught himself to read at age two by watching Sesame Street, he was competing in high school math competitions while in the fourth grade, and four years later he was taking honors calculus at the University of Maryland. At 17, he beat out 400,000 North American high school students to win the USA Mathematical Olympiad, and over a 3-year period took two golds and a silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He took his BA and Ph D at Harvard, with a masters from Johns Hopkins in creative writing in between, then started his academic career at Princeton. He came to the University of Wisconsin in 2005, made full professor in 2011, was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2014 and since 2015 has been the John D MacArthur Professor of Mathematics. His previous books include How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking in 2014 and the novel The Grasshopper King. He also has a credited cameo in the 2017 movie Gifted in the role of math professor, giving him a Kevin Bacon degree of separation of two and making him one of the extraordinarily small and select group of people with an Erdos/Bacon number. He maintains a blog Quomodocumque.wordpress.com and tweets at JSEllenberg. It is a great pleasure to welcome to MBB Professor Jordan Ellenberg

In this episode of 1050 Bascom, we were delighted to talk to Jordan Ellenberg, Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison to talk through some of the many varied and interesting topics he engages in his new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else. The book, published in May, has received rave reviews nationally and internationally. Prof. Ellenberg offered his insights into the strengths of the rank choice voting process used in the recent NYC mayoral race. He also talked us through his research on gerrymandering and why he thinks it confronts us with the fact that “who sits in the legislature” is not a great formal proxy for “what the people want.” Prof. Ellenberg also made a convincing case for why geometry (and high level math learning more generally) is important for people participating in a democratic society. We thoroughly enjoyed our fun and wide-ranging discussion with Prof. Ellenberg and hope you will too.

MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE: [00:29:37] "The coin flips aren't influencing each other. Without that assumption, the law of large numbers might not be true." [00:13:01] "...mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things, which is an amazing insight, because it's so true to what we are doing in mathematics that, you know, on a very basic level, we use the fact that a triangle over here and the same triangle over here have the same properties we don't really worry about." [00:16:52] "...it means constructing this classical Greek way where there's only two tools you're allowed to use a compass and a straight edge. So it allows you to draw a straight line between two points or something that allows you to draw circles." Jordan Ellengberg's twitter: https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SHOW [00:01:19] Guest Introduction [00:03:02] Where you grew up and what it was like there? [00:03:58] What were you like in high school? [00:04:49] Jordan talks about geometry [00:05:24] Talks about being a biostatistician [00:08:10] Even William Wordsworth cared about math [00:10:35] Modern translation of Euclid's work [00:12:32] How is a circle the same as a square in topology? [00:25:32] What what does the law of large numbers have to do with free will? [00:32:20] Did you start to look at the history of the ideas by writing books, or was this something that you're always interested in? [00:40:26] Is language markov chain? [00:50:09] Relationship between the Golden Ratio and eigenvalues [00:57:14] What does Galileo knew about a thrown object? [01:01:28] RANDOM ROUND [01:02:13] What are you currently reading? [01:02:40] What song do you have on repeat? [01:03:16] What is your theme song? [01:04:01] What is something you can never seem to finish? [01:04:27] What's one place you have traveled to that you never want to go back to? [01:04:45] To the last one from here. What's the worst movie you've ever seen? [01:05:02] What's your favorite candy. [01:05:14] How can people connect with you and where can we find you online? Special Guest: Jordan Ellenberg.

An unlimited supply of clean, carbon-free energy—nuclear fusion is a technology that could change the world. Can engineers make fusion work on a commercial scale? Also, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg on how geometry shapes the world. And, why one of the most common sporting injuries is more of a risk to women than men—and how to prevent it. Kenneth Cukier hosts For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our new weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An unlimited supply of clean, carbon-free energy—nuclear fusion is a technology that could change the world. Can engineers make fusion work on a commercial scale? Also, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg on how geometry shapes the world. And, why one of the most common sporting injuries is more of a risk to women than men—and how to prevent it. Kenneth Cukier hosts For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our new weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg tells us about his book, Shape, and why geometry is about so much more than triangles and circles.Once you've mastered the basics with Instant Genius, dive deeper with Instant Genius Extra, where you'll find longer, richer discussions about the most exciting ideas in the world of science and technology. Only available on Apple Podcasts.Produced by the team behind BBC Science Focus Magazine. Visit our website: sciencefocus.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When was the last time you thought about geometry? Unless you're an architect or a kindergarten teacher, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about shapes. But mathematician Jordan Ellenberg wants to bring geometry back, and show us not just how shapes can measure the world, but how they can explain it.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Any system in which politicians represent geographical districts with boundaries chosen by the politicians themselves is vulnerable to gerrymandering: carving up districts to increase the amount of seats that a given party is expected to win. But even fairly-drawn boundaries can end up quite complex, so how do we know that a given map is unfairly skewed? Math comes to the rescue. We can ask whether the likely outcome of a given map is very unusual within the set of all possible reasonable maps. That's a hard math problem, however — the set of all possible maps is pretty big — so we have to be clever to solve it. I talk with geometer Jordan Ellenberg about how ideas like random walks and Markov chains help us judge the fairness of political boundaries.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Jordan Ellenberg received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1998. He is currently the John D. MacArthur professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin. He competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad three times, winning a gold medal twice. Among his awards are the MAA Euler Book Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of How Not to Be Wrong and the novel The Grasshopper King. His new book is Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.Web siteWisconsin web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsAmazon author pageWikipediaTwitter

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On this week's Tech Nation, University of Wisconsin math professor JORDAN ELLENBERG, whom you might know from his earlier book, “How Not To Be Wrong”. He talks about “Shape … The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.” Then MARCIO SOUZA, the President and CEO of Praxis Precision Medicines, describes their research drug modulating GABA, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, and its potential to treat depression, essential tremor, and other conditions.

On this week’s Tech Nation, University of Wisconsin math professor JORDAN ELLENBERG, whom you might know from his earlier book, “How Not To Be Wrong”. He talks about “Shape … The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.” Then MARCIO SOUZA, the President and CEO of Praxis Precision Medicines, describes their research drug modulating GABA, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, and its potential to treat depression, essential tremor, and other conditions.

In this episode of The Decision Corner, Brooke speaks with Jordan Ellenberg, best-selling author and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Through his research and his books, which include How Not to be Wrong, and more recently, Shape, Jordan illustrates how abstract mathematical and geometric equations can be brought to life, and indeed used to address some of the major challenges facing the world today. In today's episode, Jordan and Brooke talk about: The different types of ‘games' or problems that people and society in general face, and why they require different types of solutions. The interplay between human decision-making and AI or algorithmic approaches, and understanding which methods should take precedence in which situations. Gerrymandering, electoral system design and finding better ways to facilitate democracy. Understanding how AI can be an effective safeguard when we humans develop the rules of the game.

Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author of the new book "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else". He shares how mathematical thinking can help make elections more fair and how we can use math to better plan for pandemics. Mentioned formula: Infected tomorrow = Infected today + (0.2) x infected (today) x Susceptible(today)/Total population – (0.1) x Infected (today) https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ellenber/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author of the new book "Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else". He shares how mathematical thinking can help make elections more fair and how we can use math to better plan for pandemics. Mentioned formula: Infected tomorrow = Infected today + (0.2) x infected (today) x Susceptible(today)/Total population – (0.1) x Infected (today) https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ellenber/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"People may think of themselves as having no mind for geometry at all, but that's purely an illusion." Jordan Ellenberg -- mathematician, numbers guru, and explainer -- joins the podcast on the day his new book is released. The book, called Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, takes that subject so many people had problems with in middle school or high school and shows even the most casual reader that we all have a feel for geometry somewhere inside us-- even if we don't think we do. Coincidentally, that is something Daniel has long said about music and its mass appeal, and so Daniel and Jordan explore the fascinating parallels between geometry and music, and even get into a heated discussion over Jordan's portrayal of Puccini and his operas! Gerrymandering, politics, and math are all connected in this conversation as well, and some great poetry makes an appearance, too. Support Talking Beats with Daniel Lelchuk on Patreon. You will contribute to continued presentation of substantive interviews with the world's most compelling people. We believe that providing a platform for individual expression, free thought, and a diverse array of views is more important now than ever. Jordan Ellenberg grew up in Potomac, MD, the child of two statisticians. He excelled in mathematics from a young age, and competed for the U.S. in the International Mathematical Olympiad three times, winning two gold medals and a silver. He went to college at Harvard, got a master’s degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins, and then returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in math. After graduate school, he was a postdoc at Princeton. In 2004, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is now the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics. Ellenberg’s research has uncovered new and unexpected connections between these subjects and algebraic topology, the study of abstract high-dimensional shapes and the relations between them. Ellenberg was a plenary speaker at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest mathematics conference in the world, and he has lectured about his research around the United States and in ten other countries. Ellenberg has been writing for a general audience about math for more than fifteen years; his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Wired, The Believer, and the Boston Globe, and he is the author of the “Do the Math” column in Slate. His Wired feature story on compressed sensing appeared in the Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 anthology. His novel, The Grasshopper King, was a finalist for the 2004 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. His 2014 book How Not To Be Wrong was a New York Times and Sunday Times (London)bestseller and was one of Bill Gates’ top five summer books; it has been published in sixteen countries.

Jordan Ellenberg is a NYT bestselling author and Mathematician. In this episode, we talk about the hidden geometry of nature, information, music, and human behavior. This episode is sponsored by Bombas. Go to https://bombas.com/ASTRAL to get 20% off your first order! Please rate The Astral Hustle on iTunes. ★★★★★ It helps bring more guests you’d like to hear. My book Now Is the Way is here. Check the audiobook, hardcover, and kindle here. Join me on Patreon for monthly guided meditations, Q&As, binaural beats, and a monthly Zoom chat! Guided Meditations Vol. 2 is out now! Binaural Beats, Guided Meditations, and my Meditation Course are waiting for you. Use the code ASTRAL for 15% off. My new album Forever Hum is streaming everywhere. Here it is on Spotify & Apple Music. Check out my new surreal fiction podcast Warm Words. Sign up for Fresh thoughts, meditation tips, dope books, and more. Connect with Cory: Home: http://www.cory-allen.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/heycoryallen Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeyCoryAllen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeyCoryAllen © CORY ALLEN 2021

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? The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life "How To Never Be Wrong" by Jordan Ellenberg - Book Review Book of the Week - BOTW - Season 3 Book 39 Buy the book on Amazon https://amzn.to/372YPtI GET IT. READ :) #mathematics #everydaylife FIND OUT which HUMAN NEED is driving all of your behavior http://6-human-needs.sfwalker.com/ Human Needs Psychology + Emotional Intelligence + Universal Laws of Nature = MASTER OF LIFE AWARENESS https://www.sfwalker.com/master-life-awareness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sfwalker/message

Saya membahas buku How Not to Be Wrong karya Jordan Ellenberg. Buku ini membahas bagaimana matematika bisa membantu kita dalam membuat keputusan yang lebih baik dan lebih sedikit membuat kesalahan. Fakta menarik lainnya, buku ini merupakan salah satu buku yang direkomendasikan oleh Bill Gates pada tahun 2016 lho. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/si-kutu-buku/support

What is Prosilience, and how can organisations ensure their people provide it? That's where the discussion between my guests on this episode, Gerald Ashley and Rory Sutherland, begins. Where it goes from there, is a joyous adventure in which two great thinkers explore a range of Human Risk related topics. * Listener Warning: the episode contains adult language * This episode is the 100th in the Human Risk podcast series and is a continuation of a discussion which began in the 99th episode. I recommend listening to that first before exploring this one.You'll find my earlier discussion with Rory here: https://www.podpage.com/the-human-risk-podcast/rory-sutherland-on-compliance/and Gerald here: https://www.podpage.com/the-human-risk-podcast/gerald-ashley-on-uncertainty/As with the previous episode, I'm providing more detailed show notes given the breadth and depth of issues covered. 05:18 Rory refers to Seeing Like A State by James C Scott. More on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State05:54 Gerald talks about the metrics used to measure Soviet bicycle manufacturing. This article doesn't feature bicycles, but covers the idea and features a wonderful cartoon from a Soviet magazine: https://econlife.com/2015/08/the-incentives-that-metrics-create/09:32 Rory talks about his appearance on Bloomberg TV. You can watch that here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-25/advertisers-becoming-too-obsessed-with-tech-sutherland11:50 Rory mentions Rod Liddell in the context of a story about the BBC's travel policy. To learn more about Rod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Liddle12:34 Gerald mentions Peter Turchin, who Rory explains is a Cliodynamicist. You'll find Peter's website here: http://peterturchin.com/ and a guide to Cliodynamics one that website here: http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamics/14:10 A rare intervention by me to mention David Graber's book Bullshit Jobs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs14:30 Rory refers to 14th Century Middle Eastern Historian Ibn Khaldoun - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun15:04 Gerald talks about The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_(book)18:25 Rory talks about Daniel Kahneman's research into risk appetites of CEOs and division heads. You can read more about that in this HBR article: https://hbr.org/2020/03/your-company-is-too-risk-averse19:40 Gerald talks about the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks. You can read about the history of that unit here https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/skunk-works.html and its current role here: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/business-areas/aeronautics/skunkworks.html22:59 Gerald talks about Nudgestock, the annual Behavioural Science festival hosted by Rory. You can read about that here: https://www.nudgestock.co.uk/The presentation he refers to is by Jules Goddard called The Fatal Bias and can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNlzl37GLdA 24:46 Rory highlights the story of mathematician's Abraham Wald intervention in the Second World War. It is explained in this excerpt from Jordan Ellenberg's excellent How Not To Be Wrong: https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d25:56 Rory talks about IBM's Thomas Watson and his desire to have Wild Geese. In actual fact, Watson talked about Wild Ducks (https://www.mbiconcepts.com/watson-sr-and-wild-ducks.html). Interestingly, the Duck story actually comes from an original fable by Søren Kierkegaard about a Wild Goose. For some reason Watson preferred Ducks! You can read the Kierkegaard story here: https://www.maxelon.co.uk/2015/01/domestic-geese/26:18 Rory refers to James C Scott's idea of an Anarchist's Squint. You can read more about that in his collection of essays called Two Cheers for Anarchism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-two-cheers-for-anarchism32:33 Gerald talks about how the British government sold Rolls Royce engines to the Russian government. You can read about that here: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-british-turbojet-allowed-russias-mig-15-fight-the-air-2638532:50 Rory explains how penicillin was passed by America to supposedly neutral countries during World War Two, against British instructions. It ended up saving Adolf Hitler's life after a bomb plot on 20th July 1940. More on the research behind that here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/154-1.17501840:05 Rory references British supergroup The Travelling Wilburys. Find out who they are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys. You can hear them on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hO4YtXUFJiUYS2uYFvHNK?si=eqMFhifpSIai03kZPFHOVQ

In chapter number 6 of the podcast show ' 50 books each year ' Mijndert is reviewing; The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg. If you want to learn how to win the lottery and which lottery to play then this is the book for you. Mijndert will read the examples that Jordan is providing in the book and tell you how to make the calculations. Mijndert is also reviewing with Jordan how stockbrokers work and how banks push their index funds. Do you want to know what the mathematical way of thinking about this is? Join the show, subscribe! Because reading 50 books per year is amazing and teaches us a lot! Want Mijndert to read and review a book? Go to www.50bookseachyear.com or contact us info@50booksperyear.com

Math is having a moment. Never before, perhaps, has a graph loomed so large in our cultural consciousness, as we embrace the public health imperative to “flatten the curve.” Whether you’re a numbers whiz or think you would rather die of COVID-19 than revisit your high school math class, Jocelyn and Bradley will show you that the soul of mathematics is compassion. Fundamentally, math is not about numbers, but about relationships. Math is a tool for empathy, teaching us how our actions affect one another and enabling us to make informed decisions to take better care of each other. Math connects us, and at the same time, it helps us understand how we are connected. In this episode, the hosts discuss the unique status of mathematical knowledge as a means of thinking, interpreting, predicting, and intervening. In particular, they consider what we might call the numeracy gap—disparities in mathematical understanding—and how this gap has fueled conflicting interpretations of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. From risk calculations to exponential growth functions, math is the mental apparatus that allows us to project from what we are observing to what we will observe in the future, from our individual realities to our collective reality. When are you ever going to use algebra? Right now, friends. Right now. For further information: Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracker: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 “Hold the Line,” by Yale epidemiologist Jonathan Smith: https://elemental.medium.com/hold-the-line-17231c48ff17Exponential growth:Coronavirus vs. every 2000s epidemic (Cary Huang): https://youtu.be/n4no04822NQExponential growth and epidemics (3Blue1Brown): https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrgSimulating an epidemic (3Blue1Brown): https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs Interactive graphs: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ The story behind ‘flatten the curve,’ the defining chart of the coronavirus: https://www.fastcompany.com/90476143/the-story-behind-flatten-the-curve-the-defining-chart-of-the-coronavirus Modeling the pandemic: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/modelers-struggle-to-predict-the-future-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-67261https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/Further Reading:The Great Influenza, John M. Barry: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-History/dp/0143036491Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, John Allen Paulos: https://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences-ebook/A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematician-Reads-Newspaper-Allen-Paulos-ebook/How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg: https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/...Contact Science! With Friends (especially if you’re a scientist interested in a lively conversation about your science and science story) at Gmail or Twitter!• Gmail: sciwithfriends@gmail.com• Twitter @SciWithFriends• Facebook: Science With FriendsScience! With Friends Podcast is created and hosted by Jocelyn Bosley (@SciTalker) and Bradley Nordell (@bradleynordell), Produced and edited by Vince Ruhl.

Everyone knows that coffee can help you think and focus and can even improve your mood – especially that first cup in the morning. Years ago, coffee advertising contained the tagline… “Coffee, the THINK drink.” But it just may be that all the research showing how good coffee and caffeine are for mental function is flawed. If you are a coffee drinker, you are going to want to hear this. http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2012/08/21/caffeine-the-silent-killer-of-emotional-intelligence/Then, we look at all the math you use in everyday life. Mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, author of the book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (http://amzn.to/2uyMDx6) reveals just how important math is and how it is constantly changing. He also discusses how not to be tricked by statistics and numbers that are designed to mislead you.People do better work when they get a reward. It applies to people at work or kids at home – and it comes as no surprise. What’s interesting is that it actually depends on the type of reward. It doesn’t have to be a big reward, it just has to be the right reward to get people to do their best work. I’ll explain. Source: Dr. John Hoover, author of the book “The Art Of Constructive Confrontation” (https://amzn.to/2UcskBf)Why don’t diets work? Diet books and programs are as popular as ever but we continue to get heavier. Yoni Freedhoff, M.D., author of the book The Diet Fix (http://amzn.to/2vMM55m) explains the reasons why your next diet is likely doomed to fail and what works better to get the weight off and keep it off.

If you are a scientist, you know that the frenzy for funding can be fierce, which is why, as with any system where people are competing for a pool of money, there can be perverse incentives to fudge the numbers, or select your variables to give you the most significant result. This practice, known as "p-hacking," is rampant, as argued by a mathematician known as Jordan Ellenberg, whose book Deondre' read recently, and whose talk on the subject is linked below. (There's a great explanatory interactive that explains p-hacking made by 538 linked below as well.) In this episode, we talk with Tayeb Zaidi, a biomedical physicist at the FDA, about the various way in which science isn't always the well oiled machine of truth that some people think it is. Replication studies, which are the mechanism of 'checking' other scientist's work by doing the same experiment again to see if you got the same results, aren't sexy, especially when scientists usually got into the field to discover new things in the first place, and it's hard to build a reputation for yourself as a scientist by re-doing other people's work. On top of that, they often aren't well-funded, because funding organizations would also like to spend time and money discovering new things over replicating other studies. Links: The 538 Guide to P-Hacking: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/ How Not to Be Wrong Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143127535 Debunking the power pose study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170911095932.htm xkcd comic around jelly beans and p-values: https://xkcd.com/882/ Birth control drug trials: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/09/guinea-pigs-or-pioneers-how-puerto-rican-women-were-used-to-test-the-birth-control-pill/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Che nesso c'è tra la statistica e la vittoria degli americani nella seconda guerra mondiale? La matematica serve veramente nella vita reale? Studiarla a scuola è l'unico modo di imparare qualcosa? Video su YouTube: https://youtu.be/kz43H5sjvZM Link libro "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" di Jordan Ellenberg: https://amzn.to/2nmm2Tg

University of Wisconsin Math Professor Jordan Ellenberg considers how to win the lottery, find hidden messages in holy books, how not to pick stocks and perceived if messy value in divining entrails--

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Amanda and Jenn discuss queer reads, graphic novels, management advice, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by our Mystery/Thriller giveaway, All That’s Dead by Stuart McBride, and Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee, read by Oliver Wyman. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. FEEDBACK Here’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army by Carla Kelly (rec’d by Kate) Boom Town by Sam Anderson (rec’d by Miranda) I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (rec’d by Miranda) How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg (rec’d by Miranda) Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (rec’d by Miranda) Uprooted by Naomi Novik (rec’d by Miranda) The Tairen Soul series by C. L. Wilson (rec’d by Victoria) QUESTIONS 1. So I’m from Australia and it’s currently winter where I am in August at the moment but in October that’s when it’ll be spring and I’m going on vacation to somewhere where it’s sunny, hot and relaxing atmosphere! I was hoping you girls could recommend me some books to bring for the trip Summer books are good, I also like thriller and horror, weird for summer but oh well! I like authors like Taylor Jenkins Reid No YA if you can -Tamika 2. Time Sensitive: My son is turning 15 next week and I always get him a book (or five) for his birthday. This past year, he’s really been into graphic novels: he loved Scott Pilgrim (and the movie) and having read The Watchmen myself some years ago, I gave him a copy and he loved it. We have Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and Marvel 1602 in the house (which I have not yet read yet), but I am looking for some other graphic novels he might enjoy. Any suggestions? -Neda 3. Hello Get Booked friends! Last year I was #blessed to get a job at my dream company, and am currently moving from entry-level to mid-career level responsibilities (aka “Big Kid stuff” as I like to think to stave off imposter syndrome). I have such a supportive work community as I grow into these new responsibilities, but I am wondering if you could recommend books (fiction or non-fiction) with practical advice for women stepping into leadership and “big-girl” responsibilities for the first time. I’ve read Lean In, You are a Badass, and a lot of Brene Brown, and tested the waters of some general business books, but I’d love the practical, Millennial perspective of women moving from entry-level to a management role (and managing people) for the first time. -Lauren 4. Aloha Ladies! This podcast has been a godsend for me as I’ve recently rediscovered my love for books after a long hiatus. With my re-entry into the world of bibliophiles, my best friend and I created a long-distance book club (Hawaii to Boston!) with some other wonderful women who were interested. I’ve never been part of a book club before and am so nervous about picking an interesting read that will spark discussion. There are no restrictions on genre, author, etc., but I would prefer to select a book that’s written by a woman. My personal preferences lean heavily towards fantasy (not sure that’s the best for a group), true crime and mystery/thrillers. Any suggestions for books that will drive thought-provoking discussion would be greatly appreciated! Many Mahalos! -Christina 5. Hello! I have a wonderful colleague who is preparing to adopt a child from Colombia. She doesn’t know a great deal yet, but knows that the child will be around 8-10 years old. I would love to get her some books that they could read aloud together. My colleague and her family are all currently taking Spanish classes, and the child will be in the process of learning English. Any thoughts on a good read that might help to ease the adjustments that will be happening in some small way? Thanks so much, for this and for your great recs in general! -DK 6. hi, i’ve been a fan for a while and so i’m looking for recommendations by authors who are not from the u.s., or more specifically just anything from the other side of the world. i have so little international books, it feels like i’m limiting myself to one country, one kind of book. i recently read “gumiho” by kat cho, which i really liked, and am reading “i am not your perfect mexican daughter” by erika sanchez, a book which i’m relating to a lot since i am latinx. some books i really like/love are “the rest of us just live here” by patrick ness, “eliza and her monsters” by francesca zappia, and any series/book that rick riordan has worked on or presented. i’m open to any genre though i have a tendency to like books that mix the real world with a bit of fantasy/supernatural. bonus if there is lgbt and mental illness rep in the book. -Ru 7. I am looking for a new book/books to read after finishing the books by Nina LaCour. I like books with queer characters (especially wlw and trans characters) set in western cities (LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland) where the city plays a big part of the book. I have read “Little and Lion” “Juliet takes a breath” and “when dimple met rishi” Love the show! Thanks so much -Joelle BOOKS DISCUSSED Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (tw: slavery and violence inherent therein, harm to children, rape, incest) Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub (tw: depression, suicide) Lazarus Vol 1 by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Ríos (cw: nudity/prostitution) No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien and Molly West Duffy Ask A Manager by Alison Green (and the online columns!) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (tw: torture, harm to children, gore) Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend / Lupe Vargas y Su Super Mejor Amiga by Amy Costales, Alexandra Artigas Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Passing Strange by Ellen Klages About a Girl (Metamorphoses #3) by Sarah McCarry

THE MATHICAL BOOK PRIZE An annual show we do honOring the  books out there that include Mathematics as part of the Text and pictures...not textbooks....but childeren's books, fiction etc. Fun and good thoughtS with Dr Jordan Ellenberg and Kirsten Bohl of The National Mathematics Research Institute

THE MATHICAL BOOK PRIZE An annual show we do honOring the  books out there that include Mathematics as part of the Text and pictures...not textbooks....but childeren's books, fiction etc. Fun and good thoughtS with Dr Jordan Ellenberg and Kirsten Bohl of The National Mathematics Research Institute

Ron Eppes, Intel Community Engagement Manager: Ron is the perfect first guest for our podcast! While the sound quality isn’t great (we get better with time, promise) his stories and love of community are inspiring! Ron is a STEM Rockstar who works just down the road a few miles at Intel Corporation where he is passionate about ensuring Intel is a great corporate citizen. His story is interesting as he shares how someone important in Ron’s life with no apparent attachment to STEM had such a big influence on him ultimately pursuing a STEM career. Show Notes Corporate involvement in STEM education benefits everyone, with efforts such as this: Twelve Months of Math Ron’s Book Recommendation that relates to his belief that math is fun and powerful in engineering as well as everyday activities such as his running example:    How to Not be Wrong, the power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg                       Community Involvement and Recognition in STEM STEMYS:  Excellence in STEM Awards Ron Eppes Ronald.d.eppes@intel.com While it wasn’t mentioned in the interview, we thought listeners would enjoy Ron’s Ted Talk: Ron’s Weird Ideas about Math (TEDxABQED, March 27 2015)  

Ron Eppes, Intel Community Engagement Manager: Ron is the perfect first guest for our podcast! While the sound quality isn’t great (we get better with time, promise) his stories and love of community are inspiring! Ron is a STEM Rockstar who works just down the road a few miles at Intel Corporation where he is passionate about ensuring Intel is a great corporate citizen. His story is interesting as he shares how someone important in Ron’s life with no apparent attachment to STEM had such a big influence on him ultimately pursuing a STEM career. Show Notes Corporate involvement in STEM education benefits everyone, with efforts such as this: Twelve Months of Math Ron’s Book Recommendation that relates to his belief that math is fun and powerful in engineering as well as everyday activities such as his running example:    How to Not be Wrong, the power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg                       Community Involvement and Recognition in STEM STEMYS:  Excellence in STEM Awards Ron Eppes Ronald.d.eppes@intel.com While it wasn’t mentioned in the interview, we thought listeners would enjoy Ron’s Ted Talk: Ron’s Weird Ideas about Math (TEDxABQED, March 27 2015)  

On The Gist, Devin Nunes probably doesn’t know squat.  In the interview, Democrats hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs in this year’s midterms, which means they have a lot to lose. But importantly, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says election predictions often fail to account for national mood. Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.  In the Spiel, Mike defends his bougie laundry routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, Devin Nunes probably doesn’t know squat.  In the interview, Democrats hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs in this year’s midterms, which means they have a lot to lose. But importantly, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says election predictions often fail to account for national mood. Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.  In the Spiel, Mike defends his bougie laundry routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg reveals that his favorite theorem is Fermat's Little Theorem, which, when you really boil it down, asserts that 1+1 = 2.

Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing (Simon & Schuster) Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve is a playful and informative look at what the numbers have to say about our favorite authors and their classic books. It’s How Fiction Works or Eats, Shoots & Leaves meets Nate Silver. There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in between—not to use ‘ly’ adverbs. It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we were to count all the ‘ly’ adverbs these authors used in their careers, do they follow their own advice compared to other celebrated authors? What’s more, do great books in general—the classics and the bestsellers—share this trait? In Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world’s greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors’ favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which contemporary writer uses the most clichés? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring? Blatt draws upon existing analysis techniques and invents some of his own. All of his investigations and experiments are original, conducted himself, and no math knowledge is needed to understand the results. Blatt breaks his findings down into lucid, humorous language and clear and compelling visuals. This eye-opening book will provide you with a new appreciation for your favorite authors and a fresh perspective on your own writing, illuminating both the patterns that hold it together and the brilliant flourishes that make it unforgettable. Praise for Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve “What fun this is! Ben Blatt’s charming book applies numerical know-how to questions of literary style, teasing out insights about cliffhangers, adverbs, and whether Americans write ‘more loudly’ than the British. (Spoiler: WE DO!!!)”—Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong “Ben Blatt’s delightful book gives us an original big data perspective on great writers’ work. Its humor, insights, and statistical displays are fascinating to behold, even as it helps us develop our own writing.”—Carl N. Morris, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Harvard University “Blatt provides amiable and intelligent narration, and literature enthusiasts will enjoy the hypotheses he poses and his imaginative methods.”—Publishers Weekly Ben Blatt is a former staff writer for Slate and The Harvard Lampoon who has taken his fun approach to data journalism to topics such as Seinfeld, mapmaking, The Beatles, and Jeopardy! His previous book, co-written with Eric Brewster, is I Don't Care if We Never Get Back, which follows the duo’s quest to go on the mathematically optimal baseball road trip, traveling 20,000 miles to a game in all thirty ballparks in thirty days without planes. Blatt’s work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Deadspin.

Leon Neyfakh talks to Jordan Ellenberg and Dave Weigel about whether it’s fair or not to criticize Nate Silver for missing Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leon Neyfakh talks to Jordan Ellenberg and Dave Weigel about whether it’s fair or not to criticize Nate Silver for missing Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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... Experience the excitement and energy of Las Vegas each weekend on VEGAS NEVER SLEEPS with Steven Maggi.

On this week's episode of Slate Money, University of Wisconsin math professor Jordan Ellenberg joins Cathy O’Neil and Slate’s Jordan Weissmann to talk about beating the lottery, academia’s tenure conundrum, and whether or not Uber drivers are employees Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What was the business story of 2014?  What was the biggest surprise?  Which CEOs deserver some holiday cheer?  Who deserves a lump of coal?  We tackle those questions and revisit our interview with How Not To Be Wrong author Jordan Ellenberg.    

We bet you an Andrew Jackson that you’ll like our show on fractions and Faxon. First up, Nat Faxon, star of the FX show Married, explains why being leading man doesn’t have to mean being boring-man. Then, Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong, explains why the true common core for mathematics instruction is pizza. And in the Spiel, Mike defends the selfie from the scorn of a Christian minister. Get The Gist by email as soon as it’s available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The point of math isn't solving problems," Jordan Ellenberg told me, "it's understanding stuff." And all too often these days we're misunderstanding stuff, even if we have more numbers than ever to work with. Jordan and I discussed some of the mathematical muddles we get into in politics, economics, finance and scientific research and how we can do better. He's a professor of math at the University of Wisconsin and the author of the acclaimed new book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking."

The book discussed in this interview is How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Penguin Press, 2014), by Jordan Ellenberg.  This is one of those rare books that belong on the reading list of every educated person, especially those who love mathematics, but more importantly, those who hate it.  Ellenberg succeeds in explaining the value of mathematical reasoning without ever needing to go into technical detail, which makes the book ideal for those who want to learn why mathematics is so important.  What makes the book doubly delightful is Ellenberg’s writing style; he intersperses the math with amusing anecdotes, dispensed with a sense of humor rarely found in books such as this.  The book is chock-full of OMG moments; the introductory anecdote about Abraham Wald and the missing bullet holes absolutely whets the appetite for more and Ellenberg never fails to deliver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The book discussed in this interview is How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Penguin Press, 2014), by Jordan Ellenberg.  This is one of those rare books that belong on the reading list of every educated person, especially those who love mathematics, but more importantly, those who hate it.  Ellenberg succeeds in explaining the value of mathematical reasoning without ever needing to go into technical detail, which makes the book ideal for those who want to learn why mathematics is so important.  What makes the book doubly delightful is Ellenberg’s writing style; he intersperses the math with amusing anecdotes, dispensed with a sense of humor rarely found in books such as this.  The book is chock-full of OMG moments; the introductory anecdote about Abraham Wald and the missing bullet holes absolutely whets the appetite for more and Ellenberg never fails to deliver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Slate and Wired. His latest book is “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” and he was here to speak at Town Hall Seattle. Jordan Ellenberg talks about ideal airport arrival time, the joy of uncertainty and how better to argue with your spouse.

The Fed continues tapering. Amazon introduces a smartphone. And FedEx hits a new high.  Our analysts discuss those stories and share three stocks on their radar.  Plus, Jordan Ellenberg shares some insights from his book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.

Chances are that when you think about math—which, for most of us, happens pretty infrequently—you don't think of it in anything like the way that Jordan Ellenberg does. Ellenberg is a rare scholar who is both a math professor (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a novelist. And in his fascinating new book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, he deploys analyses of poetry, politics, and even religion in a bold recasting of what math is in the first place.For Ellenberg, the stuff you hated about math in high school isn't the core of the thing. He's emphatic that mathematics isn't simply about the calculations involving, you know, numbers; rather, it's a highly nuanced approach to solving problems that we all, unavoidably, encounter. Ellenberg's chapters range from showing how mathematical thinking undermines many popular proofs for the existence of God (Paley's design argument, Pascal's wager), to explaining how math helps us understand why smoking causes lung cancer (contrary to claims by one early statistician who actually argued that the causation might be reversed—that lung cancer might cause smoking!).On the show this week we talked to Ellenberg about his book, and math: why you’re probably thinking about it all wrong, and why it’s so powerful.This episode also features a short interview with Tasneem Raja, author of the must-read new article "We Can Code It: Why computer literacy is key to winning the 21st century" in Mother Jones, and a discussion of new findings about autism and possibly how to stop it—by making brain cells better able to communicate with one another.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

Today on the Gist, the case for integrating math into everyday conversation. Mike talks with Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong. Then, a look at a hostile takeover attempt that harkens back to days of Barbarians at the Gate. Jeffrey McCracken from Bloomberg explains how the drug company Valeant is attempting to buy Botox-maker Allergan with the help of an activist investor. Plus, Mike's Spiel honors Massimo Vignelli, the late graphic designer best known for laying out the NYC subway map. Get The Gist by email as soon as it’s available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slates-the-gist/id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices