The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel
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What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.
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How does our brain’s exponential understanding of quantity relate to war casualties? Use the same logic to relate exponential scale to another quantity (i.e. population increase, bacteria growth, credit payments).
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