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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Shape of the Universe
Topology is what's called an intrinsic theory. If you can't tell whether you live in a circle or a knot, the person who lives on that knot to them, it's a circle. All of those are things that you can figure out about your world without leaving your world. The tools of mathematics are exactly there to enable you to think about what you cannot visualize in this way.
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