A review by mchester24
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg

3.0

I loved Ellenberg’s first book and so I was eager to grab this follow up— though I’d agree with others’ assessments I see here that it wasn’t quite as good this time. Too often I felt like I was reading small versions of many different interesting books that I’d rather dive into as a whole treatise from the author in book length (gerrymandering, disease spread being the key ones). So it did feel a bit disjointed at times, and I wish there was more coverage of Nauru rally occurring geometric shapes in nature, biology, etc. But in the end, lots of profound and thought provoking nuggets of ideas that made this worthwhile. And while I’ve always loved math, this did indeed serve to validate that not studying mathematics and the very advanced level was probably the right move!