Jordan Ellenberg Quotes

• This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Science, Sound, Collaboration

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• André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Science, Devil, Mathematics

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• I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Improbable things happen a lot...

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Happens, Improbable, Things Happen

  "Did Nate Silver Actually Get Anything Wrong?". Interview with Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com. May 17, 2016.

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• My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Book, Reading, Practice

  "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

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