i think a lot of whenever i have felt the most love and passion and obsession for mathematical concepts. It came from something intuitive. In this way, it plugged into whatever i feel intuitively inspired by. For me, it would be like conway's game of life,. that i can get stuck on a rabbit hole of the internet forever - not really understanding it on a deep level, but understanding it at an intuitive level. I start to feel the train of thought that i think game of life is supposed to inspire in you. And then i see people who have created starting conditions where they create an infinite, fractilized game of life inside of game of life or there's terring
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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