Who is smarter, man or machine?
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning thanks to ChatGPT and the like, but the maths behind it is a big mystery to most people. Maths professor and bestselling author Christian Hesse has a fascination for numbers that is infectious. In his new book, he explores the question of what humans have in common with machines in the field of maths and where they differ. In doing so, he makes us see the world with new eyes - because mathematical equations do play a role everywhere. Did you know, for example, that ants share the shortest route to food via pheromone trails, which can be expressed in algorithms? These little animals are so steeped in mathematics that the equations behind their behaviour can even be used to solve logic puzzles. Hesse takes readers into the infinite expanses of variables, vectors and matrices, invites them to join in the puzzling and shows where human intelligence ultimately outwits machine intelligence.
