Interview with Jordan Ellenberg

Jordan is a mathematician as well as an author of popular books about mathematics, with great sense of humour. And this interview goes as wild as the picture of the interviewee on his webpage!

Jordan's webpage: https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ellenberg/

Chapters:

0:00 intro

0:28 a year of writing fiction

4:12 what's hard about writing

11:31 finding math everywhere

15:19 cool thoughts on writing

22:58 teaching writing to math folks

24:55 pain & joy of bad writing

29:15 Jordan's workshop where we met

34:30 how to know when the article is ready

38:34 how to make interviews?

45:51 Mura complaining about interviewees :)

51:26 how people really feel about math

54:55 how to survive the lack of feedback

1:03:32 bringing standup tricks into writing

1:09:08 sentimental approach to finishing books

1:12:00 Jordan's book recommendation for us