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 intro0:28 a year of writing fiction4:12 what's hard about writing11:31 finding math everywhere15:19 cool thoughts on writing 22:58 teaching writing to math folks24:55 pain & joy of bad writing 29:15 Jordan's workshop where we met34:30 how to know when the article is ready38:34 how to make interviews?45:51 Mura complaining about interviewees :)51:26 how people really feel about math54:55 how to survive the lack of feedback1:03:32 bringing standup tricks into writing1:09:08 sentimental approach to finishing books1:12:00 Jordan's book recommendation for us