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Author: Jordan Ellenberg
Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and a novel, The Grasshopper King,
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