13 | Steven Strogatz on ruthless simplification
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Mathematicians Love Symmetry
Symmetry is another good criterion, and that's one that jacobe used to emphasize a lot in his biological examples. So we've talked about the elements of beauty from a mat perspective, simplicity, economy, symmetry. What martin and i are thinking about a lot is the process of the process of mat how is it that we come up with ideas? How do you use that to guide your work? Well, for me, it's often a secondary consideration, actually. To the extent that beauty and simplicity are connected, which i do think they are, simplicity is actually the more powerful practical test. And so i use simplicity very often as a strategy. Keep simplifying the
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