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Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books.

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0:00 – Was Shakespeare a Mathematician?
05:54 – How Maths Shows Up in Art
24:16 – Pythagoras’ Discoveries in Music
27:26 – Cultural and Historical Differences in Mathematics
36:21 – What is a Number?
47:28 – The Unsettling Reliability of Maths
59:44 – Does Mathematics Explain the Universe?

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