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: 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

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Interview with Jordan Ellenberg is an episode from Math-Life Balance by Mura Yakerson.

This episode is 01:14:06 long.

This episode was published on Feb 9, 2026.

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