Mario Livio — Mathematics, Mystery, and the Universe
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Language of Symmetry
In your book, af the equation that couldn't be solved, you tease out an aesthetic connection between mathematics and art and nature. Would like to talk about group theory, the language of symmetry, which is something else you've worked on in your book. Symmetry basically is a quantity that describes something that does not change. For example, if you take a phrase like madam, i'm adam, this is a palindrome,. So that's symmetric under the beck to front operation, and so on.
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