"This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar."

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Source: Brother from Another Mother by Zadie Smith, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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Jordan Ellenberg

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Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author known for his work 'How Not to Be Wrong,' which explores the application of mathematics in everyday life.

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