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
