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1-29-2008 11:09 AM739 views
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Graham Farmelo reviews Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy
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2-1-2008 3:16 AM
Johanna_G
Thank you for this interesting clipmark.

Regarding the quoted pronouncement
'Archimedes will outlive Aeschylus'
I'd like to announce doubt. As long as humans experience the dilemmas of life and the tragic of incurring guilt in inevitable enmeshments and can't live without hope for catharsis, the idea of Aeschylus's tragedy is living. You can't set this into rivalry to the principles of Archimedes's mathematics and physics. Both are included in human mind and life, history and need.
By the way: Symmetry is a fundamental mathematical property - but fortunately, nature does not materialize it perfectly, nor does art! Nicole Kidman's feature is not perfectly symmetric at all, t...
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