# Is life really that complex?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxUCL
- Speaker: Hannah Fry
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_fry_is_life_really_that_complex)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Is life really that complex?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/hannah_fry_is_life_really_that_complex/5a9da7ddb724), 10 min (TED's player)