The isap gally runs lightning fast on a nipad, or you can just kind of create your own rules and sort of see what it does. The game of life is a very simple mathematical construct invented by a fascinating guy called john conway who unfortunately died last year. It brings home so vividly to people the way of very short and simple set of rules can produce an astonishing amount of complexity. I mean, i don't know if conway thought of it this way, but you can think of it as a metaphor for geometry itself. Inmat g o l l y is the name of the apple. Just just found it. Yes, i will play with this endlessly.
In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.
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