A World of Patterns
The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights and may be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles, and the systematic knowledge they form, began at least 40,000 years ago when striped patterns were engraved on mammoth’s bones.
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Original title
Een wereld vol patronen
Author
Rens Bod
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Rens Bod
Rens Bod is a professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and was formerly a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of St Andrews (UK). His previous publications include A New History of the Humanities. The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present (2010), which won several prizes and was translated into seven languages, A World of Patterns (2019), was nominated for the Libris History Prize.