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Is life really that complex?

Hannah Fry · TED

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About

Can an algorithm forecast the site of the next riot? In this accessible talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows how complex social behavior can be analyzed and perhaps predicted through analogies to natural phenomena, like the patterns of a leopard's spots or the distribution of predators and prey in the wild.

The talk

  1. Is life really that complex? 10 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxUCL
Speaker
Hannah Fry
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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