It is increasingly clear the political period we are now entering could be the most chaotic and consequential any of us can remember. Forget 2020. Forget 2016. Forget the Bush-Gore Florida "who won?" debacle. Forget Nixon and Watergate. This is on a whole different level.
Math superstar Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometrical underpinnings of pretty much everything from pandemics to voting districts to the 14th dimension. If geometry is indeed "the cilantro of math," Ellenberg could convert even the most die-hard hater to the joy of shapes.