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The Luminaries
When I began The Luminaries, I didn't know what the formula was. And it was a formula. Do you think I would approach the book differently had I actually understand from the very beginning that what I was watching here was mathematics unfold? Probably because the more you know about something, then you always have a different approach to it. Math is often called the language of the universe. We are mathematical creatures. But we may not recognise it because if we've got this wrong idea that maths is just about doing really hard sums, then you don't realise really what mathematics is about its pattern. It's in all of our creative forms. You see it in art with symmetry and beauty and
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