emergence

Can maths help us understand how ants, of such little brains, manage to cooperate so brilliantly?

In this podcast we talk about magical concept of emergence and how we can model the behaviour of crowds of people.

Find out how a square grid and some simple rules can generate complex patterns and life-like behaviour.

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