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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

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The Transition Time Question

There's something in the movement that seems to be not just about our perception system, but fundamental to our cognition. In fact, another insight of modern geometry is this idea that maybe we would naively think we're going to study the three-body problem. That's a problem that Poincare won a huge prize for making the first real progress on in the 1880s and we still don't know much about it 150 years later.

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