The answers to everything, from how computers learn to play chess to how a democracy should choose its representatives, can be found in geometry.
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Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg reveals the hidden geometry underneath some of the most important problems we face.
Jordan Ellenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and the Sunday Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, as well as an award-winning novel, The Grasshopper King. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and writes regularly for The New York Times, Washington Post and Wired.
This talk was livestreamed on 1 July 2021.
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