27 Top nonfiction books like Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

Cover of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

By: Jordan Ellenberg

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a …

"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

1. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By: James Gleick

4.03

Format: 527 pages, Hardcover

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more

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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"

-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."

-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."

-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."

-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Cover of Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring) by Ian Stewart

2. Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)

By: Ian Stewart

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a … read more

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"Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will"

-Ian Stewart, Letters to a Young Mathematician (Art of Mentoring)

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3. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

By: John Allen Paulos

3.78

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plan… read more

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Cover of Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham

4. Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

By: William Dunham

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestone… read more

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Cover of The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven H. Strogatz

5. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

By: Steven H. Strogatz

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more

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Cover of Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

6. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

By: Mark Miodownik

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more

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Cover of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver

7. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

By: Nate Silver

3.75

Format: None pages,

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more

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8. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

By: None

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a per… read more

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9. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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10. 探偵ガリレオ [Tantei Garireo] (ガリレオ, #1)

By: Keigo Higashino , 東野 圭吾

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Mass Market Paperback

okarutowoKe Xue deJie Ming suruMing Tan Zhen Deng Chang ! Tu Ran , Ran eShang garuRuo Zhe noTou , X… read more

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11. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

By: Ian Stewart

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical e… read more

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12. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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13. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By: Matt Parker

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more

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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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14. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Cover of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

15. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more

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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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16. Math Without Numbers

By: Milo Beckman

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more

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Cover of The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

17. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

18. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

19. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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Cover of How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil

20. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Cover of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

21. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

By: Ananyo Bhattacharya

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more

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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Cover of What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner by Dan Levitt

22. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

By: Dan Levitt

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more

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Cover of We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee

23. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

By: Sally Adee

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more

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Cover of Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox

24. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

By: Brian Cox

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more

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Cover of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

25. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

By: Jordan Ellenberg

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more

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"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"

-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

Cover of The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter

26. The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too

By: David Sumpter

3.67

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For going viral? For deciding how long to stick with yo… read more

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Cover of The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation by Michael Brooks

27. The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation

By: Michael Brooks

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of … read more

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Cover of Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life by Marcus du Sautoy

28. Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life

By: Marcus du Sautoy

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver—and how everyone c… read more

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Cover of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri

29. The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math

By: Manil Suri

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientis… read more

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Cover of The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives by Kit Yates

30. The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives

By: Kit Yates

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From birthdays to birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, mathematical patterns shape o… read more

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Cover of So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World by Raghuveer Parthasarathy

31. So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World

By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity The form and fun… read more

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