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Jordan Ellenberg

Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of How Not To Be Wrong and Shape. His research centers on number theory but touches on algebraic geometry, topology, combinatorics, and artificial intelligence.  He has held a Sloan Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.