{"product_id":"book-eicu","title":"Shape","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow Not to Be Wrong—\u003c\/i\u003ehimself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you're like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it's plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. Okay, it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e geometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShape\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The word \"geometry,\" from the Greek for \"measuring the world.\" If anything, that's an undersell. Geometry doesn't just measure the world—it explains it. \u003ci\u003eShape\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of images and shapes.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49398326231344,"sku":"BDeicu","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411875-eicu-Square.jpg?v=1735502058","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-eicu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}