Can Mathematics Fuel Creativity? With Marcus du Sautoy (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared where great minds meet. I'm head of programming, Connor Boyle. I'm joined by our producer, Mia Sorrenti, to discuss what we've got coming up today. Mia, if people haven't seen Marcus de Satoy's snazzy promo video on social media, what can they expect from today's episode? Yeah, we're huge fans of Marcus.
at Intelligence Squared. So previously we hosted an event with him on the workings of board games and around the world and how games are so important to humanity and our understanding of life and the world. We had the honor of having Marcus back on the Intelligence Squared stage this May. He was in conversation with Dr. Shinny Samara and the two of them were speaking about the interaction between maths and creativity, which we think often of things
you know, maths and creativity feels like something completely separate. You know, when you're picking a GCSEs, you go down one route or the other, but Marcus argues that this actually isn't the case and that they're actually very closely interwoven. You know, whether we're searching for kind of meaning in an abstract painting or finding patterns in poetry, you know, what he calls kind of mathematical blueprints are everywhere. Symmetry, prime numbers, the golden ratio and more.
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