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The origin of countless conspiracy theories

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Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text — even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory, which states that given enough elements in a set or structure, some interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge. [Directed by Aaron, Sean & Mathias Studios, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Manuel Borda].

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Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
PatrickJMT
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, History, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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