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Jordan Ellenberg

Nascido: July 13, 1971 – New York City, New York, United States

Jordan Ellenberg is an American mathematician and writer whose work explains how mathematics, statistics, and logical reasoning shape everyday life. A professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he is best known for the bestselling books How Not to Be Wrong and Shape, which broadened public interest in mathematical thinking.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Jordan Ellenberg grew up in Potomac, Maryland, the child of two statisticians, in a household where quantitative thinking and literary curiosity coexisted. He has written that, as a boy, he spent his time solving math problems, writing small ironic stories, and listening to melancholy rock music. That combination persisted through Harvard, where he studied mathematics, and through a subsequent year of fiction study at Johns Hopkins before he returned to Harvard for a Ph.D. in mathematics. Long before he became known to general readers, he had already distinguished himself as a young competitor, representing the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad three times and winning two gold medals and one silver. ((https://www.jordanellenberg.com/about/))

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"Jordan Ellenberg's talent for finding real-life situations that enshrine mathematical principles would be the envy of any math teacher"

The Washington Post

"Jordan Ellenberg shares Martin Gardner's remarkable ability to write clearly and entertainingly"

Times Higher Education

"Jordan Ellenberg shows how mathematics can delight and stimulate the mind"

Steven Pinker

"Jordan Ellenberg's prose is a delight - informal and robust, irreverent yet serious"

The Guardian

"Almost anyone is likely to enjoy Jordan Ellenberg's prose, and mind"

Harvard Magazine

"Jordan Ellenberg is a top mathematician and a wonderful expositor"

Timothy Gowers

"Jordan Ellenberg is an enviably skillful writer"

SIAM News

"Jordan Ellenberg, in both his arguments and his enthusiasm, is persuasive"

New Statesman

"So great are Jordan Ellenberg's gifts of exposition and insight that one hopes for many more books from him"

Times Literary Supplement

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