How can we use math to answer some of our most canonical questions ? Mathematician and author Jordan Ellenberg is here today to take our questions about everyday maths , how to instruct math literacy , and the hidden mathematics of our world .
Ellenberg’snew book , How Not To Be Wrong : The Power Of Mathematical Thinking , await at the numerical underpinnings of our world and how we can use math to respond everything from how much special time you should give yourself to catch a escape to how to see baseball game .
Ellenberg has both a Ph.D. in math from Harvard University and a Masters in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University . He ’s a prof of mathematics at The University of Wisconsin at Madison , where his mathematical enquiry focuses on number theory and algebraical geometry . He has also published a novel , The Grasshopper King .
He will be join us today from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ( Pacific time ) . require him whatever you want about mathematical literacy andwhat we ’re doing wrongfulness in math education , routine theory , the world of daily math , and what we can do to better understand it all .
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