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020			_a0593299736 (export edtion)
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040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dDLC _dSKYRV _dMiTN
042			_apcc
050		4	_aQA446 _b.E454 2021
100	1		_aEllenberg, Jordan, _d1971-
245	1	0	_aShape : _bthe hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / _cJordan Ellenberg.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c[2021]
300			_a463 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhere things are and what they look like -- "I vote for Euclid" -- How many holes does a straw have? -- Giving the same name to different things -- A fragment of the sphinx -- "His style was invincibility" -- The mysterious power of trial and error -- Artificial Intelligence as mountaineering -- You are your own negative-first cousin, and other maps -- Three years of Sundays -- What happened today will happen tomorrow -- The terrible law of increase -- The smoke in the leaf -- A rumple in space -- How math broke democracy (and might still save it) -- I prove a theorem and the house expands.
520			_a"Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. Geometry doesn't just measure the world-it explains it. Shape shows us how"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aGeometry.
650		0	_aShapes.
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