Jordan Ellenberg

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“numerically flavored advice.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Mathematics is common sense.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“torturing the data until it confesses,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it’s much better evidence that our world was…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“impossible to walk across the street,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“A real-world problem is something like “Has the recession and its aftermath been especially bad for women in the workforce, and if…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“the interesting thing about the slime mold is that it makes pretty good decisions.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“If you do happen to find yourself partially believing a crazy theory, don’t worry—probably the evidence you encounter will be inconsistent with…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Typical of the form is an item from the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog of June 24, 2013: The Social Security…

— Jordan Ellenberg

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

— Jordan Ellenberg

“The significance test is the detective, not the judge.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“A math teacher’s least favorite thing to hear from a student is “I get the concept, but I couldn’t do the problems.”…

— Jordan Ellenberg