A Sunday Times top ten bestseller and a New York Times bestsellerFor readers of
Freakonomics,
The Drunkard's Walk (37k pb) and
The Undercover Economist (186k pb TCM) and the books of Ian Stewart and Marcus du SautoyFantastic, widespread review attention and coverage for the hardbackJordan Ellenberg is a Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin, and the 'Do the Math' columnist at
Slate. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and delivered one of the plenary addresses at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest math conference in the world. His novel
The Grasshopper King was shortlisted for the NYPL Young Lions Award, and he writes regularly for
The New York Times Magazine, the
Washington Post and
Wired.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore, and when to change the equation entirely. Along the way, he explains calculus in a single page, describes Gödel's theorem using only one-syllable words, and reveals how early you actually need to get to the airport.
