[FRIAM] More food for thought: Is There a Multidimensional Mathematical World Hidden in the Brain’s Computation?

[Frank Wimberly]

Algebraic topology and its applications are very important.  We are learning a little about it in our mathematical physics reading group (Baez:  Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity).  When I was an undergraduate at Berkeley I worked in the Math Library and consequently had a good deal of contact with the graduate students.  The most attractive area to most of them was algebraic topology and they were great admirers of E. H. Spanier who was working on a textbook in the area.  That book has been available for a long time now.

 

I am glad to know the field has applications in neural networks, which I didn’t know.

 

Frank

 

 

 

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 10:10 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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Frank: what did you think about the algebraic topology bit?

 

   -- Owen

 

This week, the Blue Brain Project  <http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full> proposed a fascinating idea that may explain the complexities of the human brain. Using algebraic topology, a type of mathematics that “projects” complex connections into graphs, they mapped out a path for complex functions to emerge from the structure of neural networks.

And get this: while the brain physically inhabits our three-dimensional world, its inner connections—mathematically speaking—operate on a much higher dimensional space. In human speak: the assembly and disassembly of neural connections are massively complex, more so than expected. But now we may have a language to describe them.

 

 

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Vladimyr <vburach at shaw.ca> wrote:

Tom Johnson;

 

Thank- you

 

I felt dumbstruck when I finished reading…

That only reassured me.

Awesome is this news, in the original sense, like a kick to the head.

.vladimyr

 

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
Sent: June-24-17 1:01 PM
To: Friam at redfish. com
Subject: [FRIAM] More food for thought: Is There a Multidimensional Mathematical World Hidden in the Brain’s Computation?

 

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