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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries
Lex Fridman Podcast
Can You Predict the Middle Column?
Conway always had a rather ambivalent relationship with the game of life because he saw it as... It was certainly the thing he was most famous for in the outside world. I think that his view, which is correct, is that he had done things that were much deeper mathematically than that. He was exactly the kind of person who you would never want to reduce to one achievement. There's power to calling this particular set of rules game of life as Conway did. Because, not exactly sure, but I think he had a sense that there's some core ideas here that are fundamental to life and complex systems.
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