Marcus du Sautoy
Mathematician; Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and author of The Music of the Primes and The Creativity Code.
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Their wordsOf course as we go forward, adventures in science fiction are increasingly becoming the next ideas for science fact.
↗UK Space Design Competition Finals 2018findingmoonshine.blogspot.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is one of the tragedies of our education system that we treat subjects in isolation.
↗UK Space Design Competition Finals 2018findingmoonshine.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 20 months earlier
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Their wordsMathematics does not consist of true statements about numbers just as music is not simply a sequence of notes.
↗Messiaen, Maths and Me.findingmoonshine.blogspot.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsProbably the most important numbers in Nature are the Fibonacci numbers: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13...
↗Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Timefindingmoonshine.blogspot.com
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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.
↗Messiaen, Maths and Me.findingmoonshine.blogspot.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsDo not trust physicists bearing divergent series. You will lose your wallet.
- 8 months earlier
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Mathematical elegance is no guarantee that a mathematical model matches physical reality.
Their wordsGeometric elegance is of course no guarantee that the mathematical universe that Weinstein describes must match the reality of our universe.
↗Geometric Unityfindingmoonshine.blogspot.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsHowever, a little thought reveals that whenever a final theory is at last found, it will first begin its public life with an overwhelming statistical likelihood of failure.
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The value of an idea does not depend on the identity or background of the person who proposes it.
Their wordsI have always been a believer that it doesn't matter who the person is and what is their background, it is the ideas that speak for themselves.
↗Geometric Unityfindingmoonshine.blogspot.com 3rd of 3 in this piece