Sublime

emergence, a higher-level pattern arising out of parallel complex interactions between local agents.

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REVISITING RAMANUJAN

Pierre de Fermat,

it results in a kind of cosmic ballet that plays out on stages that range from our bodies to the universe as a whole.

these feats of synchrony occur spontaneously, almost as if nature has an eerie yearning for order.

What’s really happening within each city is a massive exchange of information across social and economic networks of people and organizations, all taking place on a complex infrastructural landscape of buildings, roads, pipes, and wires. For the most part there is no maestro; the properties of cities emerge from countless interactions of millions o

This curious gain of an effective additional dimension is a general feature of space-filling curves, to which I will return in the next chapter.