{"id":645,"date":"2022-03-17T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2022-03-31T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:00:19","slug":"how-we-use-number-theory-and-non-euclidean-geometry-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/how-we-use-number-theory-and-non-euclidean-geometry-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Use Number Theory and Non-Euclidean Geometry In Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019d like to talk about data privacy, how WellAI is applying Number Theory and non-Euclidean geometry, and why they are so important in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For medical data privacy, blockchain technology is the best technology out there.\u00a0 At WellAI, we are fortunate to have some of the original blockchain mathematicians.\u00a0 That\u2019s something we are very proud of.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In our ongoing educational series, Daniel Satchkov, head of machine learning at WellAI, explains why Number Theory and non-Euclidean Geometry are essential in medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How We Use Number Theory and Non-Euclidean Geometry In Medicine\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0dGQwESTosM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/wellai.health\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s first explain why Number Theory is important in blockchain and bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the decentralized blockchain, everyone holds her own keys.\u00a0 In bitcoin, if you lose your key, your money is gone.\u00a0 But that could be fixed.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the biggest problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the big advantage is that you have your private keys.\u00a0 Moreover, your private keys don\u2019t have to be tied to your identity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some people think blockchain is anonymous.\u00a0 That\u2019s not true.\u00a0 It is pseudonymous meaning you can create the key, and every action of that key would be connected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain private keys are related to Number Theory.\u00a0 Number Theory deals with very-very large numbers, numbers not found anywhere in this universe.\u00a0 The universe is huge.\u00a0 But these numbers are much much larger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need a central authority to create a bitcoin account.\u00a0 There is no central authority in bitcoin.\u00a0 You create your own key.\u00a0 A bitcoin key is just a set of random numbers.\u00a0 You are your own authority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But if everyone is independently generating a bitcoin key what is the chance that two people may have the same key, and then someone may get access to someone else\u2019s money?\u00a0 Yes, strictly speaking, it\u2019s possible.\u00a0 In Meta, for example, there is a central authority, an IT department that makes sure no two accounts are the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Number Theory deals with such big numbers that for all practical purposes it\u2019s impossible for two people to randomly generate the same numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain keys are a remarkable achievement of humankind.\u00a0 Something that humans did for centuries for fun all of a sudden has this amazing application.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are also some interesting applications in geometry.\u00a0 The Russian mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky, along with the Hungarian Janos Bolyai came up with non-Euclidean geometry.\u00a0 In Non-Euclidean geometry parallel lines do cross.\u00a0 At that time every scientist in the world was laughing at Lobachevsky and Bolyai.\u00a0 But then the 20th century came along, and with space exploration non-Euclidean geometry became critical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A field of medicine that cannot exist without non-Euclidean geometry is genomics.\u00a0 A lot of genetic structures are best described with non-Euclidean geometry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are at the very beginning of understanding applications of mathematics and data science in medicine and other fields of life!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay healthy!\u00a0 Stay knowledgeable about your health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WellAI Team<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellai.health\/\">wellai.health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019d like to talk about data privacy, how WellAI is applying Number Theory and non-Euclidean geometry, and why they are so important in medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[184,168],"tags":[233,211,234,213,203,230,232,231,192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/security-model-1-e1647522896952.jpg?fit=700%2C397&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellai.health\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}