Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2018: From Qubits to Spacetime Topic: Holographic Entanglement Entropy" Speaker: Matthew Headrick Date: July 16, 2018 For more video please visit video.ias.edu
Maybe he means smooth as in continuous, rather than pixelated and discrete. Smooth surfaces usually relate to calculus, while discrete math is usually computational. My apologies for presuming to answer this question. I just wanted to try. :P