The international bestseller a whipsmart entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world from the author of How Not to Be WrongHow should a democracy choose its representatives How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world How do computers learn to play chess Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market Sorry no. What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think The answers to all these questions can be found in geometry.If youre like most people geometry is a dimlyremembered exercise handed down from the ancients that you gladly left behind in school. It seemed to be a tortuous way of proving some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place.