Jordan Ellenberg Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Math professor at Wisconsin. Number enthusiast. Author of HOW NOT TO BE WRONG and SHAPE (May 2021)
The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
Sarah StodolaJordan EllenbergHey! My cousin @sstodola's new book, THE LAST RESORT, gets reviewed in NYT by @AlexandraJacobs! https://t.co/vGyrUxIhlS
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asymmetry
Lisa HallidayJordan EllenbergI'm late to this but I just read LIsa Halliday's ASYMMETRY and it is really good.
Paperback, 2018
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forty-one False Starts
Janet MalcolmJordan EllenbergGreat inside view of a writer at work. EVERY piece you read has multiple abandoned versions of the opening like this. See also Janet Malcolm's amazing "Forty One False Starts": https://t.co/MMHFaspXp0 https://t.co/0rPWECOr3J
Paperback, 2014
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
David B. AuerbachJordan EllenbergDavid Auerbach's MEGANETS is out this week! A pretty sobering book about algorithmic systems too big to regulate. https://t.co/FZ6lvVfzKA
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Course in Arithmetic
J-P SerreJordan Ellenberg@BarbaraFantechi I read Serre's A Course In Arithmetic cover to cover, but it's very short.
Hardcover, 1978
$64.99Member price:$61.74 + Free shipping5% off
Acceptance: A Memoir
Emi NietfeldJordan EllenbergIt's publication day for ACCEPTANCE, by @eminietfeld, a bracing and enlightening memoir about struggle, Harvard, mental illness & "success" https://t.co/7aOW2fnXQR
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. ScottJordan Ellenberg@courtneymilan I learned about this from James C. Scott's book _Seeing Like A State_: https://t.co/RHzYiMzmDv
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