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Listen to Episode No. 58 of Slate Money: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab On this week’s episode, Slate Money doubles down on Jordans, as special guest Jordan Ellenberg ...

You had me at the title: How not to be wrong. Please, order a copy for everyone on the staff, I thought, but be sure to delete that scary “m” word in the subtitle. Ellenberg is an entertaining writer, ...

Growing up, Jordan Ellenberg didn’t much like geometry. “As a kid I was very interested in math but I was drawn to the more algebraic and numerical side,” said Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at ...

Approximately 50 times a day, I visit a handful of presidential election–forecasting websites to remind myself of Joe Biden’s chances of becoming the next president. Honestly, I’m not sure why I do it ...

In How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg celebrates the virtues of mathematics, especially when they're taught well. He writes ...

So you’re walking down the street carrying a hot slice of pizza on a paper plate. The tip of the slice is so heavy with cheese and sauce that it’s drooping toward the ground. How do you solve this ...

There’s little objectively sexy about math. With its flummoxing sine curves and its formulae written as if in ancient cuneiform, the subject has driven countless people to such frivolous pursuits as ...

In 1943, a mathematician named Abraham Wald was given a problem to solve by the U.S. Air Force. Its engineers wanted to know where to reinforce the armour on fighter planes to best protect them in ...