Every book Jordan Ellenberg recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Jordan Ellenberg

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

1. 1

   Algebra

   Izrailʹ Moiseevich Gelʹfand, Alexander Shen · Discussed · 1 episode

   Discussed

   “and I should just like take a year of leave and just like read ega the holy textbook el amon de geometry algebraic the elements of algebraic geometry”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Ge… 2021-06-13 Listen at 2:30:36

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible
2. 2

   The Mathematica Book

   Stephen Wolfram · Discussed · 1 episode

   Discussed

   “but what he did is exactly this process of darwin-like exploration is taking these very simple ideas and writing a thousand page book on them”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Ge… 2021-06-13 Listen at 2:04:22

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible

Books Jordan Ellenberg wrote

• How Not to Be Wrong
• Shape

Appearances