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Messiaen, Maths and Me.

Marcus du Sautoy · 7 Jul 2016

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  1. Our reading

    What counts as mathematics is an aesthetic selection among true statements about numbers, not every such statement itself.

    Their wordsMathematics does not consist of true statements about numbers just as music is not simply a sequence of notes.

  2. Our reading

    The discovery of the Mathieu group M12 gave mathematicians their first sense of how complex the world of symmetry could be.

    Their wordsThe discovery of this sophisticated symmetrical object was the first inkling for mathematicians of how complex the world of symmetry would turn out to be.

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