Jordan Ellenberg
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About Jordan Ellenberg
Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and an MFA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins. His areas of research specialization are number theory and algebraic geometry. He has written articles on mathematical topics in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Believer, and is a regular columnist for Slate.
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Blog postSaw this with CJ. Good movie. If you’re wondering, can you see this with your adolescent, definitely yes. If you’re wondering, will my adolescent have a deep conversation with me afterwards about the challenges of growing up, well, that’s not really CJ’s style but good luck with it!
My favorite thing about Eighth Grade is the way it captures the adolescent challenge seeing other human beings as actual people, like oneself, with their own interior lives. Other p2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postWhen I was a kid, one of my favorite books was Before the Golden Age, a thousand-page anthology Isaac Asimov edited of his favorite stories from the pulp era of science fiction, the early 1930s, when Asimov was a teenager. I was reading those stories at about the same age Asimov was when he read them. Asimov put this anthology together in 1974, and remarks in his afterwords on his surprise at how well he remembered these stories. I, reading them in my own adulthood, am3 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postI gave a talk about gerrymandering at the Prairie Unitarian Universalist society. As usual, I showed how you can pretty easily district a state with a 60-40 partisan split to give the popular majority party 60% of the seats, 40% of the seats, or 100% of the seats. After I do that, I ask the audience which map they consider the most fair and which they consider the least fair. Usually, people rate the proportional representation map the fairest, and the map where the popular4 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postMadison is changing its flag! The old one
has a Zuni sun symbol in the middle of it, which people correctly feel is a sort of random and annoying and unrelated-to-Madison vic of somebody else’s religious symbol. On the other hand, on pure design grounds it’s kind of a great flag! Simple, but you see the lakes, the isthmus, the Capitol. The new flag elegantly keeps all that while skimming off the cultural appropriation:
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Blog postI wrote this on Facebook about a year and a half ago.
Thought of it today when I saw this tweet from Donald Trump Jr.
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Blog postThere is a certain very special type of unproductivity that I have experienced only in math. You are working on something and you feel almost certain your strategy is not going to work. In fact, it is more likely than not that your strategy is not even a new strategy, but a variant on something you’ve already tried unsuccessfully — or maybe not even actually a variant, but just a rephrasing you’ve fooled yourself into thinking is a variant. So you are not sure whether you ar1 month ago Read more
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Blog postGround lamb from Double Ewe Farm (Arena, WI) bought at Conscious Carnivore, stir-fried with scallions/mushrooms/cabbage/garlic/soy sauce/sesame oil and served on top of shiso leaves from Crossroads Community Farm (Cross Plains, WI) with Hot Mama’s habanero sauce from Belize.
I would include a picture of it but it actually didn’t look very pretty. It tasted great, though!
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Blog postDane County fair. Food consumed: some Chocolate Shoppe ice cream, lemonade, a banh mi, Thai iced tea, chicken yassa from Keur Fatou. We saw two young cows auctioned for $400 and $425. We rode the Blizzard and the Ferris wheel. (The trip is now just two revolutions long — sorry, but that’s a ripoff, for five bucks I should get at least four top-offs.) This year’s circus acts were frisbee-catching dogs and two motorcyclists in the Globe of Death. (Good,1 month ago Read more
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Blog postI was in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago with AB and we went to the brand-new Museum of the American Revolution. It’s a great work of public history. Every American, and everybody else who cares about America, should see it.
The museum scrapes away the layer of inevitability and myth around our founding. Its Revolution is something that might easily not have succeeded. Or that might have succeeded but with different aims. There were deep cont2 months ago Read more -
Blog postI’ve been giving a bunch of talks about work with Matt Satriano and David Zureick-Brown on the problem of defining the “height” of a rational point on a stack. The abstract usually looks something like this:
Here are two popular questions in number theory:
1. How many degree-d number fields are there with discriminant at most X?
2. How many rational points are there on a cubic surface with height at most X?
Our expectations about the first quest2 months ago Read more
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