*Due to University weather-related closure, this talk was cancelled. 

“Making Words Count: Creative Writing and the Mathematical Imagination”
Bethe House talk
Tuesday, March 14
6:00-7:15pm Dinner in Bethe Dining
7:30-8:30pm Discussion in 125 Bethe House
Open to all west campus.

Join Jordan Ellenberg in conversation with Cornell professor of mathematics Kathryn Mann, for a wide-ranging discussion about mathematics, creative writing, and effective communication.

Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Ellenberg is both a world-class scholar of mathematics and a world-class communicator. His mathematical expertise focuses primarily on arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory. He is the author of Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else (2021), about the ubiquity of geometry in modern life, and How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (2014), a New York Times hardcover bestseller. His debut novel, The Grasshopper King (2003), has been described as “a profoundly absurd campus satire about immortality, obsession, obscurity and true love.”

This event is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit and is co-sponsored by the Cornell Dept. of Mathematics. Ellenberg visits the Cornell campus in Ithaca as an ADW-PAL March 13-17. Ellenberg was elected as an ADW-PAL in 2019. His appointment runs through 2025.