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[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Beauty of Mathematics

It's very hard, of course, to describe any form of beauty. And it's more difficult with mathematics because you have to be able to speak the language. But in fact, I suspect we agree, rather more readily, by mathematical beauty, than say, painters do about artistic beauty. It turns out that a simple-looking thing implies all sorts of surprising and unexpected things.

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