Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Equipment for Biological Diagnosis and Therapy in Universities of Shandong, Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (IAIR), University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, P. R. China Walter weave his web into shapes in an attempt to make a sturdy, wind-proof web. Can you predict which shapes will withstand the wind’s strength? Understanding shapes is a foundational math skill as well as an important visual identification skill.

Royal icing– I used royal icing for the pink flowers. These were made in advance. I piped them onto pieces of parchment paper and left them to set and dry before peeling them off to be put on the cake. When using royal icing for flower piping, the consistency has to be stiff so that the petals can hold shape. I prefer to use royal icing compared to buttercream simply because I live in a hot and humid country and buttercream is difficult to handle at such temperatures. I thoroughly enjoy Ellenberg's style (and his hand-drawn pictures/diagrams to aid with explanations), which is friendly and not overly formal. But he is also careful to state things in a way that aren't so simplified they are no longer true. There's a difficult balance and I think Ellenberg manages it quite well. I learn a lot from seeing his presentation of an issue, even if I was already somewhat familiar with it.the twenty-six smallest states, whose fifty-two representatives make up a majority of the Senate, speak for just 18% of the population. Mathematicians have an imperial tendency - we often see other people's problems as consisting of a true mathematical core surrounded by an irritating amount of domain specific information" Ellenberg can ramble; there are a few times I felt the book was turning into a primer on COVID-19 modelling (which isn't bad, but didn't feel like the book I started reading). At times, the emphasis on geometry works (especially when discussing huge multi-dimensional spaces), but sometimes I felt he was pushing too hard to make something geometrical (e.g., the SIR model for epidemics). Overall, the theme is there to give Ellenberg a focus, but it's not carried out strongly. Shapereveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. The word “geometry,” from the Greek for “measuring the world.” If anything, that’s an undersell. Geometry doesn’t just measure the world—it explains it. Shapeshows us how.

People often complain that no one likes facts and numbers and reason and science anymore, but as someone who talks about those things in public, I can tell you that’s not true. People love numbers, and are impressed by them, sometimes more than they should be. An argument dressed up in math carries with it a certain authority. If you’re the one who outfitted it that way, you have a special responsibility to get it right. understanding through the sorites paradox (at how many grains of wheat do you get a pile), that even if you don't know when something bad starts, you can tell when it's VERY bad. Draw the line there, might be arbitrary but still useful Book cakes may sound difficult to make but in reality, they are fairly easy even though a bit of carving is required on the cake. Here is one such book cake I have made. It’s an open book cake idea, and the decoration was done entirely in butter icing. A cake that looks like a book - an open book cake in butter icingThis book has many excellent pieces but they are poorly linked together and surrounded by bloat. In my opinion, it could be polished into another masterpiece (like his previous book "How Not to be Wrong") if the theme was more concrete and topics were more carefully strung together. there is no reason to know very many digits of π. There are real-world contexts where you’d want to know seven or eight digits, sure. But the hundredth digit? It’s hard to imagine what you’d need that for. Forty digits is already enough to compute the circumference of a circle the size of the Milky Way to within the size of a proton. Math professor Ellenberg ( How Not to Be Wrong) shows how challenging mathematics informs real-world problems in this breezy survey . . . Math-minded readers will be rewarded with a greater understanding of the world around them.” —Publishers Weekly the hilarious story of how the Electoral College came about as an exhausted compromise rather than the brilliant design we tout it to be