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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Transformation of Geometric Symmetry

The group theorist as a mathematician is studying symmetry. And for me, I think this is wonderful transformation that happened in mathematics. It was actually a change of language where we took sort of this geometric symmetrical world into kind of an algebraic language created by one of my heroes and mathematics.

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