Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
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Marcus du Sautoy on the invisible numbers behind symmetry.
In his TED Talk from 2009, Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the numbers behind all symmetrical objects.
As a mathematician, du Sautoy believes that symmetry is "nature's language" communicating genetic information in biology or helping us predict fundamental particles in CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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- Type:
- Event
- People:
- Professor Marcus du Sautoy
- Published:
- 2011
- Filmed:
- 2009
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Licence: Standard YouTube Licence

