PRESS & MEDIA
Review at the New York Times Book Review
“…a deeply enjoyable and insightful book.”
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Review at The Telegraph
“Writing with passion for a non-mathematical audience, Ellenberg is a popular educator at the top of his game.”
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Want kids to learn math? Level with them that it’s hard. (Excerpt at the Washington Post)
“‘Math is hard’ can be discouraging. But ‘Math is easy’ is just false, which is even worse.”
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The Most Irrational Number (Excerpt at Slate)
“‘Math is hard’ can be discouraging. But ‘Math is easy’ is just false, which is even worse.”
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A Random Walk Through the English Language (Excerpt at the Scientific American)
“To Markov, this was mystical nonsense. Worse, it was mystical nonsense wearing mathematical clothes.”
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What Honest Abe Learned from Geometry (excerpt from Shape in the Wall Street Journal)
“Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means.”
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Review of Shape at the New York Times
“‘Shape’ makes geometry entertaining. Really, it does.”
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Review at SIAM News
“His new book, Shape, has raised the game; it seems to me even better than his last.”
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Review at the New Statesman
“Ellenberg, in both his arguments and his enthusiasm, is persuasive.”
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“By the Book” interview at the New York Times Book Review
“As someone who writes nonfiction about topics many people don’t know they care about, I idolize Janet Malcolm.”
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Interview on the Lex Fridman podcast (almost 3 hours!)
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Q&A with Derek Thompson at the Atlantic
“Tennis is physics plus people reacting to physics.”
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Author profile at Quanta
“The spirit of creativity and play and rigor can all be present at the same time.”
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Profile at The Capital Times
““Shape” is full of stories about the geometry behind all sorts of things, told in Ellenberg’s engaging and often funny voice, like a lecture from your favorite professor.”
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Review of Shape at Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Serious mathematics at its intriguing, transporting best.”
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“In Lieu of Fun” (interview with Katie Klonick and Ben Wittes)
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“A Math Whiz on How to Stop Stressing About Election Forecasts” (interview with The Atlantic)
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Aaron Rodgers is better than Tom Brady (NBC Sunday Night Football)
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Coverage of the proof of the cap set conjecture in Quanta
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Press for How Not To Be Wrong
Review at The Washington Post
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Review at The Wall Street Journal
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Review at The New York Times
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Interview at Inquiring Minds / Mother Jones
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Review at The Financial Times
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Interview at The Los Angeles Times
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Interview at To The Best Of Our Knowledge
(Radio interview, 10 mins)
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Interview at New Books in Mathematics
(Podcast interview, 53 mins)
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Interview at The Cap Times
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Review at Salon
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Interview at The Globe And Mail
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Review at Nature Physics
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Review at 3 Quarks Daily
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Review at New Scientist
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Review at Nature
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Review at Times Higher Education
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Interview on NPR’s All Things Considered
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Interview at Time
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Online Q&A at IO9
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Appearance on Wisconsin Public Radio, “Central Time”
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Interview at Salon
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Review at Scientific American
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“Genius is a thing that happens”
Excerpt, Wall Street Journal
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Interview with Mike Pesca
Slate podcast The Gist
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“Are we paying too much attention to child geniuses?”
Video appearance on WSJ Live
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“A World of Math”:
Q&A from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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