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#190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

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Is There a Difference Between Prose and Poetry?

I think there's a lot to be discovered when you force little like silos of brilliant people to kind of find a middle ground or like aggregate or come together in a way. Can you look at make a crazy metaphor? Maybe it's a little bit like the relation between prose and poetry, right? I mean, if you might say like, why do we need anything more than prose? So you just like say it. Well, poetry does something, right? It's sort of you might think of it as a kind of compression. Of course, not all poetry is compressed. Like, not awesome. Some of it is quite baggy, but like, you are kind of often

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